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Office

where I look for the state of flow — Side projects, the job, the search for impact. The only room with a clock on the wall.

2026-05-14 shipped Production

Shipped a Hyrox app days before my own SOLO debut. Real users found what was fundamentally useless in an afternoon — things no amount of manual testing in my bubble had surfaced.

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note · Hyrox app · App Store, May 14 2026

You can manual-test inside your own assumptions forever and learn nothing. I shipped a Hyrox app on May 14, days before my own SOLO debut — and real users found what was fundamentally useless in an afternoon.

Not broken — useless. The things I'd assumed were enough to matter weren't the ones that did, and no careful clicking in my own bubble would ever have told me. Take the leap, or stay comfortably wrong.

2026-01-20 shipped Distribution

Shipped my first solo iOS app — a workout timer. Thought the hard part was behind me. The hard part was getting anyone to find it.

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note · workout timer · App Store, Jan 20 2026

Shipped my first solo iOS app — a workout timer — on Jan 20, 2026, sure the hard part was behind me. It wasn't.

Getting a good thing in front of the people who'd want it is a separate, harder craft than making it. I'd built plenty before, but never my own — and never had to make a stranger care.

2024-02-27 killed

Wrapped after four and a half years. Turns out the retrospective finally needed a retrospective.

↳ Co-hosted “No es solo código,” a weekly podcast on life in web programming — a running retrospective with a colleague, 2019 to 2024. · alive 53 months

2019-09-09 built No es solo código taken down

Co-hosted “No es solo código,” a weekly podcast on life in web programming — a running retrospective with a colleague, 2019 to 2024.

at some point said Vibe coder

"Vibe coder" is a scapegoat. There have always been people who care about the work and people who ship whatever compiles — AI just stopped hiding which is which.

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note · on a term that split the room

There have always been people who care about the work and people who ship whatever compiles. AI didn't create that split; it removed the friction that used to disguise it.

The tooling isn't the tell. Your process is.

at some point said Ownership

"The AI got it wrong" is unacceptable. A model is a tool, and tools don't carry blame. You shipped it — you own it.

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note · on owning your tools

A model is a tool, and tools don't carry blame. The moment "the AI did it" becomes an excuse, you've outsourced the one thing that was actually yours: judgment.

Use whatever gets you there faster. Just don't pretend the output stops being yours because something else typed it first.

What hangs here isn't a category of work — it's the evidence of what happens in this room. The same note may also be a Ledger row or a Glossary headword; it's authored once.