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· 4 min read The last mile isn't technical
I built a working disease tracker and offered it for free. It never got used. Here's what I learned about why good tools fail.
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Build logs
Shipping notes: constraints, tradeoffs, and what broke.
Build logs are shipping notes from real projects, what I built, what constraints I hit, what broke, and what I’d change next time.
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· 4 min read Learning in Public: Five PRs Into Open Source
Five merged PRs. A lot of reading other people's code. I decided 2026 would be different