In April I wrote that the ProjectGrid component was the unlock. I built it, measured it against the demo problem, and landed on a different next step: a real demo site.

An essay making the rounds argues that 'follow your passion' is bad advice. But it conflates accepting your circumstances with choosing them, and that distinction matters.

Some hobbies give you community. Some hobbies break the promise of community entirely. I've been thinking about why.

Most build-in-public advice stops at 'just keep showing up.' But what you're building with that consistency matters as much as the consistency itself.

On reactive days, invisible work, and protecting time for thinking.

The specific kind of demoralizing that comes from building something, sharing it for free, and getting nothing back.

I've had blogs before. Let them die. This one's about documenting what I build and what breaks along the way.

I added a career timeline to my About page. Not for a resume, but because building it taught me something unexpected about both code and career. Here's what I learned.

I keep having business ideas and not executing on them. Then someone else ships the same thing. The Noah Kagan quote that made me cringe.