Ideas and field notes

Writing from the work itself.

Notes on product choices, technical constraints, operating real systems, and the quieter lessons that only appear after something ships.

Archive

Technical notes and product lessons.

The current archive remains on Medium while future long-form work will be published here first and syndicated outward.

Feb 2026Reliability

Prevent Your OpenClaw Gateway From Randomly Stopping

A self-healing systemd setup built from a real operational failure.

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Dec 2025Local-first

Why I Built a Local-First Git Analytics Tool (Without AI)

An experiment in understanding developer work patterns using nothing but local Git history.

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Aug 2025Product thinking

Google Keep is great, but its labels are broken

The product problem behind SubKeep and the focused extension built to solve it.

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