A Thousand Things, and the One I Couldn't Make
From ten years of explaining other people's things to making my own
Some of what stacks up here eventually leaves under a name of its own — a tool, a piece of writing, sometimes a product.
Subscribe to Letters · quietly, now and thenFrom ten years of explaining other people's things to making my own
I built it for myself. Now, until the end of the year, I tell people about it — the first entry.
Facts, numbers and links for journalists and reviewers — the book, the product, how it was built, and how to reach us.
How I abandoned the brave voice and found my own
A book made instead of a manual. Essays on how to use Stacktube — and the decisions behind it. Companion 1.1.
The story of making a book instead of an instruction manual
An account of getting into the Obsidian community plugin store
Same function, but the data flowed in the exact opposite direction
Not "does it work?" but "if it fails, how will I know?"
What I found in the pre-launch security check
Only after confirming nine alibis did the real culprit appear
The disease of wanting to build something new every time a problem arises
Same button, different language — on the 30% that translation can't reach
How to look at the site I made through someone else's eyes
The boundary of AI, discovered after discarding six logos
Drawing a map alone
A pipeline that transforms YouTube videos into structured knowledge.
The moment you learn not to blindly trust AI
Why I spent two days on a single sentence describing my service
Making friends with unfamiliar words
Quietly, occasionally, we send notes.