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Notes on building things, mostly alone.
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Welcome to the Jungle Is a Pure Nightmare
the actors gave it everything. the writing and the editing gave it nothing. a review of the third welcome film, which has no story, no structure, and barely a reason to exist.
So You Want to Be a LARPer
The other kind of person who asks me how to get good at something: the one who'd rather look good at it.
So You Want to Be a Hacker
The earnest version. What actually getting good at breaking things looks like, and why it's harder and slower than the internet makes it sound.
Why I run my own servers
Managed hosting is easy. I picked the harder road on purpose, and here is what it taught me.
On shipping things alone
Design, code, app, server. One person doing all of it is slower in theory and faster in practice.