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 traditional phrase “working like a dog” evokes images of endless, exhausting grind—putting in continuous hours until your energy is completely depleted. Yet, if you observe an actual dog, their
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
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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