How the work actually went.

The decisions and tradeoffs behind the products — the reasoning, not just the pitch.

1. 01Cronradar · architectureWho watches the watcher?Building a cron monitor that has to survive its own outage — and why I deleted half the infrastructure to get there.
2. 02Coral Vita · architectureWhy the control loop can't live in the cloudA coral-reef facility runs on Starlink. That single fact decided the whole architecture of the control system — and pushed it to the edge.
3. 03YardPortal · post-mortemTwo cold-starts before either paid offI built the web app, the mobile app, and started payments — before proving a single street would sign up. A post-mortem on YardPortal.