The kitchen
A finished dish tells you nothing about the kitchen it came from. A reflection about the Meta AI hack and the gap between what a company promises and what it delivers.
One tool, not the whole kit
AI is the best tool I’ve added to the shed in years. It’s also not the only one, and not as revolutionary as I was sold. A few months going deep, and here’s where the spell broke.
Between languages
This site runs in two languages. Most things translate just fine. Technical writing is a different story. And I learned that the hard way.
Fast by default
Performance is not a technical problem. It’s an architecture one. A look at the setup behind this site and why it scores 100 on mobile.
The audience of one
I caught myself thinking about growing my audience. Honestly, it’s the same thing as yesterday. Fear.
Permission to be bad
The bad work isn’t the price you pay before the real work. It is the real work. A piece about making bad art on purpose and putting it out anyway.
Without a fight
Some friendships don’t end, they just stop. No drama, no one to blame, just two people who became different people.
Something more
Being generous when you have plenty is easy. Real generosity shows up in scarcity, and it asks for something abundance never charges you.
The shortcut
I’m lazy, and for years that paid off, automating everything I could get away with. But some things have no shortcut. A piece about where laziness stops being a tool and becomes the long way around.