Starting a build log

Most of what I ship doesn't fit neatly into a "project card." A portfolio grid is great for the finished, live, three-line-summary version of something — it's a bad place for the actual decision-making that got me there.

This is where that goes instead.

What this is

Short, occasional write-ups — mostly backend and MERN-stack stuff, since that's where I spend most of my time. Think:

• Why a particular API shape won out over the obvious one
• Bugs that took longer to understand than to fix
• Notes-to-self I'd rather keep in public than in a random .txt file

What this isn't

Not a tutorial site, not a "10 tips" content mill. If a post exists, it's because I actually ran into the thing it describes.

The Weekly log next to this is the lower-effort sibling of this section — dated, numbered, build-in-public entries. This is for when something's worth writing in full sentences instead.

// the bar for "worth a post" is roughly:
const shouldWrite = (thing: Problem) => thing.tookLongerThanExpected && thing.taughtMeSomething;

More soon.