Chris

I don’t finish every project I start. But I do name the folder and register the domain - like a normal person. Over the years, I’ve started dozens of ideas with intense, unearned conviction… and abandoned them just as fast. Here are a few of my favorites: * A

If my logs could speak, they’d probably scream. Or worse - passive-aggressively whisper things like: “Oh, now you care about tracebacks?” “This exception happened six times last week. You said nothing.” “Please don’t just grep me. I have structure. I have feelings.” Observability? I barely observe anything. Every

I love Notion. And by “love,” I mean: I’ve spent 400+ hours inside it, built a personal CRM I never updated, and accidentally created a project plan that required three scrolls to reach the actual plan. I keep using it because I want it to work. But at some

My app crashed the other night. Logs were useless. Stack trace pointed nowhere. So I did what any rational developer would do: I closed my laptop, laid down on the floor, and declared it “async debugging.” And honestly? It worked. Not the code — that was still broken. But I rebooted.

Some people keep journals. I have git log --oneline. I was looking for a bug from last August and ended up scrolling through the digital equivalent of a found-footage horror film. f9e3b22 – ok this should work 83b1f12 – temp fix do not judge me 58dd201 – refactor but worse a1248df – idk man

MVP shipped? Congrats. Now you’re the support team. You build fast, patch things together, and ship the MVP. Then real users show up. Now you’re handling: * Refunds * Access control * Support tickets * Tagging users for experiments * Random ops fires no one else wants to touch You thought you were

It started, as many bad decisions do, with a <div>. I wasn’t trying to start anything. I was just trying to align a button. One rogue margin-top turned into an existential spiral, and next thing I knew I was three days deep into redesigning an internal dashboard

By Someone Who Opened 17 Tabs While Writing This Title Let me set the scene. You’re a software engineer. You're a founder. You have ADHD. You wake up at 3:47 a.m. with an urgent need to build an AI-powered SaaS that replaces your calendar, your