Side Projects
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The Bill Grows Faster Than the Users
I remember sitting in a glass-walled conference room at a logistics startup, watching a PM present a color-coded slide deck that claimed our cloud spend…
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Let People Take Their Data With Them
I still remember the silence in the office at 3:14 AM during my time at that logistics startup—a silence that felt heavy because our main…
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Giving People Six Months and Their Data
I have a graveyard of half-finished side projects sitting on my GitHub, most of them gathering digital dust while I still pay $12 a month…
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Finding Someone Who Cares as Much
I once spent three days of my life—and a significant amount of my sanity—trying to figure out why a legacy service I’d built for a…
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Maintenance Mode Is a Legitimate State
I’ve lost count of how many “productivity gurus” have tried to sell me on a complex system of time-blocking, Notion templates, and ritualistic morning routines…
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Tell Contributors How You Work
I once spent three hours on a Tuesday morning trying to figure out why a simple pull request was stalling, only to realize the project’s…
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Twenty Open Issues and One Maintainer
I once spent an entire weekend at a logistics startup trying to implement a “sophisticated” Jira-based workflow with custom priority matrices and automated escalation rules,…
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No, and Here Is Why
I once spent a whole weekend building a complex filtering system for a logistics startup, only to watch it crash the entire staging environment because…
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Someone Sent You Code
I remember sitting in a dim office at that logistics startup, staring at a screen while my heart hammered against my ribs, wondering how to…
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Pick the Licence Before the First Star
I used to think that figuring out how to license a side project was something I could just “figure out later,” right after the code…