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WhatsApp Grows Up
Three billion users, no ads, famously free — and now a $2.99 paint job, a username land-grab, and a premium tier named after the very mod it spent a decade banning. The simplest app on your phone just found the cash register.
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Building, shipping, and scaling — from idea to product to business.
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HIPAA for Software Engineers
From zero to HIPAA-compliant: a builder's guide that starts ELI5 and progresses to architecture decisions. Covered entities, BAAs, ePHI, encryption, audit logs, AWS/GCP/Azure HIPAA-eligible services, breach notification, and the 2025 NPRM that turns 'addressable' into 'required.'
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Tauri 2: The New Default for Cross-Platform Desktop
Tauri 2 finally earns the default position over Electron — for cross-platform desktop and now mobile from one codebase. The honest case, the trade-offs, and how to make the switch.
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Indie Hacking, Different Game
Indie hacking is back. Different game now. The old playbook still works — small surface-area products, charge from day one, kill fast, ship rough — but the math underneath has fundamentally changed. Build cost collapsed. Judgment cost stayed the same. The economics inverted. What used to take three months of nights
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Stop the Line
The Toyota principle that transformed factories also transforms code, workflows, and life — if you have the discipline to pull the cord.
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The Nightly brew upgrade
How I automated brew upgrade so I never think about it again. A 100-line bash script, a launchd agent that fires at 10am daily, and a structured error log that writes its own recovery playbook. Quiet on success. Loud and useful on failure.
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Things 3: The Complete System
Every feature, every workflow, every mistake to avoid. The only Things 3 reference you need.
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Why I Shut Down Zapply
Zapply was my first real startup — a wild experiment to see if I could build something useful, make a little money, and learn what it takes to launch.
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Zapply Auth Journey
From Auth0 to Stytch
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Zapply: The Desktop Revolution Continues
Revolution in job-hunting automation, right on your desktop.
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Zapply - From Web to Desktop
The Pivot That Makes Zapply Bulletproof
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They Ignored Us, So We Hacked the System 😏
Zapply Bot in Action