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July 20, 2026

Why I Keep Shipping Side Projects

Small scope, real stakes

A side project is small enough to finish and real enough to hurt when it breaks. That combination teaches faster than any tutorial.

Owning the whole stack

When the same person writes the frontend, the backend, and the deploy scripts, there is nowhere for misunderstandings to hide.

What's next

I'll be writing up each of my projects here — the design decisions, the dead ends, and the parts I'm proud of.

This is a placeholder article — real posts are on the way.