Why this site
About a year ago I stopped writing code, and now I can build a prototype in the time it would have taken me to write a speculative essay about it. This note says what the site is for and what goes on it.
About a year ago I stopped writing code. Not by intent; the tools got good enough that the work moved to describing, reviewing, and deciding, which gave me both perspective and hours. I shipped more this year than in any year of my career. Now I can build a prototype in the time it would have taken me to write a speculative essay about it.
What I build is the first version of the next thing, a few years early, on intuition, in a small shop where nobody stops me: mobile software before phones had data plans, an agent marketplace designed before MCP existed. Wrong about the timing more often than not.
I push these tools past prudent in a sandbox so I can see where they break. The projects here are personal and not production. My day job is building systems that assume those failures.
Here is what will show up. Living pages for the personal projects, rewritten as the projects change, including the abandoned ones with a line about what killed them. Short dated notes when I want a claim on the record or a fragment kept. A longer essay now and then when I have an argument worth the length.
What won't show up: the work I am paid for, in any form. No company news, no opinions about people.
There is no cadence. Things go up when they pass a few gates, and some months nothing will. I've spent so long building that I forgot to show any of it to the other people who are building things, and the someday list is getting longer as fast as I can build from it. :-)
The about page has the long version. Now says what has my attention, and the projects index is where the work is.
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