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Notes on builds, shipping and running small products. I post now and then, and every post comes from a mistake I made myself.Subscribe via RSS

Taking tidemark's build from 38 seconds to 4

Why one open-source CLI took long enough to make me want to shut the laptop, and the three steps that got it down to 4 seconds.

I went back through three years of product data and found most features were used a handful of times a year. Here's how the cleanup went.

Beacon's probe nodes run on Cloudflare Workers. Here are five problems from a year in production, and how I solved each.

Type "lunch 28 noodles" and it's logged, even with no signal. How the parser behind Shiguang Ledger works.

Yehang is an RSS reader built from one binary and one SQLite file. Why I picked SQLite, and how I keep it steady on a tiny server.