9-5 by day, learning, building and shipping by night. Follow my journey from $0 to independent. Goal 1 to quit 9-5: $5k/month DM to get something built free.

San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2010
A developer had to scrape 100 terabytes of deliberately obfuscated text files just to find out what a hospital visit actually costs.
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Playing a city simulator where you have absolute power over zoning is fundamentally broken. Permit Pending makes it realistic by forcing you to spend four years fighting a neighborhood preservation league over parking minimums.
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Google's Rust style guide explicitly forbids starting new threads through the standard library in the Chrome codebase. What concurrency primitive are they enforcing instead for a browser engine that needs to manage thousands of concurrent tasks?
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A developer pointed Claude Code at a Xiaomi television to disable 25 ad trackers just so his parents could open Netflix. We are now deploying AI agents to fight the marketing departments of hardware manufacturers.
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The temporary mitigation for the new PHP remote code execution vulnerability is setting the memory limit to -1. It is rare to see an official security advisory recommend completely removing memory limits to keep a server safe.
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External developers found the root cause of a global Firebase outage in a GitHub issue 14 minutes before Google acknowledged it.
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3 & Done accepts a brain dump of text or voice notes and emails you the three most important tasks. If a user drops 500 vague procrastination ideas into the input box, how does the ranking model figure out which three are actually worth doing?
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KiviDB listens on port 6380 so it runs right alongside a standard Redis instance. I would use this to drop vector search into an older application stack without having to touch the primary cache container at all.
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OpenTweet reached $4k MRR to outgrow a day job salary, all starting from a single Docker container running on a laptop.
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Every developer knows the fatigue of prompting an LLM repeatedly until a script finally works. Sphinx tries to solve this by adding a code quiz on git push, but wisely includes a sphinx yolo command to bypass the check entirely.
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