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Open find posts drawer This site is a notebook left open on the table. Mostly it's me thinking out loud about how to build software without losing the thread of being a person. If you find one thing here that helps you ship something — or stop shipping something — it did its job.
I'm Mina. I write code, mostly TypeScript, mostly at night, and I run a lot of agents in parallel so I can keep the boring parts of the loop moving while I think about the interesting parts. If any of that sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
Two stories I keep coming back to
"Call me Ishmael." — Melville, Moby-Dick , ch. 1
Every builder is chasing something pale and enormous past the shipping lanes. The useful question isn't will I catch it. It's who do I become while chasing it, and do I take the crew down with me. If you are reading this in the middle of a chase, that's the question I'd lay on your desk.
"We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all." — Twain, Huckleberry Finn , ch. 18
The river is also an option. Lashed-together commits, leaks a little, gets you there. Not every project needs to be a whaler. Some need to be a raft. Knowing which one you're on this week is half the work.
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Principles Now Daily notes and findings — small posts about specific things that worked, broke, or surprised me. Most of the genuine value lives there.
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