Build logs from someone shipping security-first software alone.
Every entry here is a decision from a live product — the zero-knowledge vault behind MyDigitally, why Circal got renamed six weeks out from launch, the Claude Code setup that cut my session overhead in half. Including the calls I got wrong.
I build things to solve problems I actually have, and I write these the way I’d want to read them: what the problem was, what I tried, what broke, and what it cost.
The business side is here too — pricing decisions, pivots, the launches that didn’t land. Separating the engineering from the decisions around it would misrepresent how any of this got built.
You’ve got a video with no narration and a script you want timed to specific moments on screen. Here’s the whole path from nothing to a finished, muxed file — one terminal, zero paid tools.
A beginner’s guide to installing and using nnn on Fedora — plus how it compares to ranger and feh. Ever opened a graphical file manager just to glance at a folder of screenshots, and watched it take three full seconds to load? Terminal users solved this problem years ago.
Rebuilding the four-track browser drum machine I built as a freeCodeCamp deliverable, and actually used to practice guitar against, gets a real audit and a v2 rebuild.
The product was rebranded from the placeholder “MyCalendone” to “Circal” (a blend of circadian and calendar) because it is short, easy to pronounce, and describes the product’s core function without overpromising results. To navigate domain availability, the team adopted the practical prefix convention “trycircal.app” as an accessible starting point while focusing on clarity, simplicity, and shipping over cleverness.
The “Why” — What is the real problem? Most people plan their day without any awareness of how their body will actually feel at the time they’ve scheduled something. A
MyCalendone — Your Calendar, Now Alive Introducing MyCalendone Your calendar now knows when you peak. The first calendar that colors your day by your real energy — driven by how
Building MyDigitally: The Journey to Protecting Our Digital Legacies We spend years building our lives online. We buy domain names, accumulate thousands of dollars in gaming libraries, grow monetized
Product Update · Security Narrow Medium Wide 🌙 Dark mode The Encrypted Credential Vault: Zero-Knowledge Security at MyDigitally.app How we built military-grade encryption into your digital legacy — and audited
Building MyDigitally: The Journey to Protecting Our Digital Legacies We spend years building our lives online. We buy domain names, accumulate thousands of dollars in gaming libraries, grow monetized