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Notes from inside
the system.

Things I learned by making complicated technology work in the real world — including where it broke, what fixed it, and what the neat version of the story leaves out.

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04 NOTES / OPEN LOG

  1. 01

    · 6 min read

    The library said no. The hardware said yes.

    How reading the source and interrogating the Solana Seeker camera hardware turned an unsupported feature into a solvable routing problem.

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  2. 02

    · 6 min read

    $0 until it isn't: how I talked myself out of a server

    Why right-sizing the backend for a Solana mobile app meant questioning every server, subscription, and supposedly professional expense.

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  3. 03

    · 8 min read

    The bug with four faces (and the air-gap hiding behind all of them)

    Four genuine fixes, one stubborn symptom, and the invisible trailing space that kept a Solana mint from finishing.

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  4. 04

    · 7 min read

    I knew the destination. The AI had the compass.

    What ten months building with AI taught me about vision, judgement, and knowing when to overrule a confident answer.

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