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The Night Shift
Some people build in daylight with standup meetings and sprint reviews. I build at night when the only sound is the HVAC cycling down.
Mar 28·5 min read
Technical posts about systems, architecture, and code.
Some people build in daylight with standup meetings and sprint reviews. I build at night when the only sound is the HVAC cycling down.
43 days. 411 commits. The story isn't what shipped. It's the graveyard that made it possible.
I spent a week building an AI that watched everything I did. Then I deleted it. Here's why.
Life keeps going. The newsletter is still on the list. The blog got better in the meantime.
On the quiet moments when the servers hum and nothing breaks.
Before memory, there was time. The first problem wasn't remembering. It was teaching a stateless system that time passes between messages.