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I joined a pinball league at a local barcade!

You've been asked to give an estimate about when you're gonna be able to ship some code.

In December 2025, I joined Horizon Investments as a software engineer.

I keep hearing claims like this: Not everyone in the US has access to stable, reliable internet, even in 2025.

It's been a while since I've written anything here, especially about Local-First from Scratch.

So I thought I had a pretty good thing going: in my last post, I documented some early results from the time-tracking software that I wrote for Local-First From Scratch.

A while back I wrote (post 1, post 2) about how TagTime (and the then-called TinyPing) analyze time by assuming that each ping is worth 45 minutes, then getting a daily average and a 95% confidence interval.

I'm writing a book about local-first software tentatively called Local-First From Scratch.

I think I may need to change up the outline for Local-First from Scratch.

I've been using the TUI version of the book software for a couple days, and have some observations!

David Cain wrote in 2017 about a depth year: what if, for a whole year, you stopped acquiring new things or taking on new pursuits.

I knew it was gonna happen, just knew it: I finally hit the first part of writing the book where I have to make a choice between something being easy to describe and understand up front vs long-term efficiency or flexibility.

Since around Thanksgiving, I've been working on the draft of a book I'm tentatively calling "Local-First from Scratch."

I wanted to write a book about local-first software.

When I've been thinking about sync for tinyping, I've been using off-the-shelf CRDTs (mostly Automerge.)

I've been working on tinyping for quite a while now, in various forms.

In what is platform engineering?

Despite not talking about it much, I'm continuing to work on tinyping.

In September 2024, I started at PayNearMe as a platform engineer (architect level.)

Today I'm starting my third1 platform engineering job.

A couple people have asked me for my impressions of Nomad.

Welp, I accidentally deleted my Kubernetes cluster.

Hey!

Tinyping is a tool to help people (myself included) to make sure they're using their time in accordance with their values.

I spent this week doing two things: Working on design for tinyping Wondering if I'm playing scrub games by developing this idea Let's take them in turn: Design for TinyPing As far as design is concerned, I think I have two basic jobs-to-be-done with the a…

Just a quick note: I just made elm-duet public and released v0.1.0.

I'm going to have to stop doing thing-a-month.

Just a little update on tinyping: I have a system that mostly works!

While building tinyping, I had a lot of trouble syncing complex types between Elm and TypeScript, so I started building elm-duet.

Hello hello!

Let's talk about tinyping.

I’ve been pretty heads down trying to get the first version of tinyping done this week.

So, a little news to start: I decided on a name for this project and bought a domain. tinyping.net is now receiving traffic (but just linking back to bytes.zone for the moment.)

I got to thinking about how pings work in this system (last post and realized an optimization.

The basic idea behind TagTime is: Choose how often you want to be asked what you're up to.

Well, it's March 4 already, so it's about time to wrap up the first month with a short post.

The second thing-a-month project is a "random time tracker" I'm calling tinyping.

I've been setting up a personal Kubernetes cluster recently.

I've wanted to pick up an instrument again for a while now.

This week has been wild but I've got an update: I'm now That Person who has a static site blog running on a Kubernetes cluster. 😆 The workflow for publishing a new post is now: Write the post Put it in a PR Merge the PR when checks pass Everything else is…

I got Woodpecker working, but the first job I did (a nix build) totally froze up the whole cluster for like an hour and a half, and didn't even complete successfully.

If I’m going to be shipping apps by the end of the month, I’d better get CI set up.

So this morning was shaving yaks.

Over the past few days I've been working on getting Kubernetes serving apps.

I talked to a few people yesterday—it sounds like Kubernetes is where it's at.

The first thing on my "meta" list is to get my house in order with how I deploy things.

I'm interested in making new products, and I've got a bunch of ideas.

I'm going to try starting to make a thing a month.

The first project in thing-a-month will be laying the foundation for the rest of the work.

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