Six Months of Daily Builds
Half a year of shipping something small almost every day, across design, code, video, and photo. What the habit actually produced, and where it quietly broke down.
Field Notes
Process Notes
& Build Logs
Write-ups from the same daily-builds habit that fills the project log — what worked, what got cut, and the small decisions that don't fit on a project card.
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Notes from the build log, expanded.
Each post ties back to a project on the log — the reasoning, the dead ends, and the one decision that mattered more than the rest. No fixed schedule: a post goes up when there's something worth writing down.
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A Design System Retrospective
Three months after shipping the Obsidian tokens to a second project, here's what actually got reused, what got quietly rewritten, and what I'd cut on day one if I started over.
What Generative Grids Taught Me About Constraints
An infinite-variation canvas system sounds like freedom. It behaves more like the opposite — the piece only got interesting once the rules got stricter.
Designing With Dark Mode First
Most teams bolt dark mode on at the end. Building the token system dark-first instead changed how I think about contrast, hierarchy, and where accent color actually belongs.
Shipping a Terminal Dashboard in a Weekend
A build log for the Ink-based CLI dashboard — what made it into the two-week window, what got cut, and the one dependency that almost derailed the whole thing.
Editing Rhythm: Cutting a 60-Second Reel
A showreel lives or dies on pacing before it lives or dies on any individual shot. Here's the cut structure that got the 2026 reel from a raw dump to something with momentum.
Notes From a Night Shoot
Twenty frames, one weekend, no flash. What actually worked shooting a city after midnight, and the two settings I got wrong on the first ten shots.