Writing
Essays about building small software on my own — what shipped, what I cut, and what it cost. Roughly one a month.
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The smallest thing that could ship
Every project I have finished got smaller before it got done. Here is the question I ask to make that happen on purpose.
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I stopped measuring my week in hours
Tracking time made me busier and no more useful. What replaced it is one sentence written on a Friday afternoon.
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Notes on writing a CLI people keep
Small command line tools live or die on the first thirty seconds. Most of what makes them survive is not code.
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Rebuilding my site for the fourth time
Four rewrites, each one smaller than the last. The current version is a folder of files, and I think that is the end of it.
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Pricing a product with one customer
The first price is not a market rate. It is a question, and there is exactly one person who can answer it.
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Against the roadmap
A public roadmap for a one-person product is a promise made by someone who has not met next year.
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