Newsletter Archive

February 16, 2026 24 Commits, 677 Tests, One Dashboard: Shipping Fast Without Cutting Corners

This week I built a full MLB analytics dashboard from zero to production-ready in 7 days. 24 commits. 677 tests. Real Statcast data. WASM performance bindings. Here's how numbered deliverables and test-first discipline made it possible.

February 10, 2026 The Bootstrap Paradox: Building the Thing That Builds the Thing

This week I built an AI system that writes its own modules, fought Node version hell across three machines, and discovered why cascading context beats monolithic prompts every time.