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Notes from shipping · newest firstThis Time Next Week, We Will Be Playing It: How I Built The Ezz Show in a Weekend
A puzzle format from TikTok, a three-dollar puzzle book, one weekend of planning and a Thursday deadline. A real-time puzzle arena for the one hour a week when nobody is allowed to talk about work.
I Saw a TikTok About a System Design Roulette, Built One, and It Bricked a Colleague's Laptop
How a daily kiosk that locked my screen for a lesson became Principia Desk: nine classes, your own AI tutor, five ways out of every lock, and a first stable release. The story of what broke and what that taught the product.
I Built The Remote & Ledger Because Job Hunting Is a Pipeline Problem Wearing a Spreadsheet Costume
A local-first job-application copilot: it crawls remote roles into SQLite, tailors a résumé per job with the AI you already pay for, and tracks the whole pipeline — and nothing leaves your machine except the call to the model you chose.
I Built dropport in an Afternoon Because I Was Tired of Typing Port Numbers
Local dev servers at real hostnames, over HTTPS, still there after a reboot. A thin wrapper around Caddy — and the one bug that taught me not to trust my own doctor command.
What I learned losing a CMS database
My old portfolio ran on Directus. Its database lived on one VPS. The VPS got repurposed.
I Built Vertex Reader Because My Manhwas and Manhua Lived in Too Many Places
If you read manhwas and manhua seriously, you already know the problem. One of your favorite titles is on Site A. Another one — the one with the slow burn you’ve been waiting on…
Simplifying PostgreSQL Logical Replication: A Docker-First Approach to Database Synchronization
How a single Docker container can solve your multi-database synchronization challenges
My Journey with Expo
About 5 months ago, my team and I released the Ntopor App and while we got mostly positive feedback on the product, our reach was limited to the dev community, which had mostly…