Lessons from shipping a side project alone — what I built, broke, and rebuilt three times over.

A reluctant convert’s notes — and the keymap I cheat with every single day.

A year-end essay on mechanical things that age well, written from the garage floor.

Tiny gotchas that cost me an evening, so they don’t have to cost you one.

On lectures, late nights, and a checklist for shipping in 90-minute blocks.

What compounding actually feels like when the graph is your own two hands.