// earlier from the desk
More from the desk.
case notes · q2 2026~7 min
Two weeks to a membership portal. →An independent publisher needed subscriptions, gated reading and a community wall, and the runway said two weeks. Notes on what I cut to make it ship.
architecture · q1 2026~6 min
Don't reinvent the wheel. →ToyCar Showroom needed an e-commerce platform and a personal-garage feature that did not exist anywhere else. A note on which one I built and which one I refused to.
architecture · q3 2025~6 min
Serverless for the uncertain launch. →When a founder can't predict their first month of traffic, the architecture should cost almost nothing while nobody is using it. Notes on idle, cold starts, and the bills you'd rather not sign.