No More Recs

At the start of this year I told myself I'd post one recommendation every week. A product, a tool, a service — something useful, something worth sharing. Seemed like a solid plan.

It wasn't.

By February it already felt like a chore. My site started looking like a brand mood board I didn't curate, and every time I sat down to write one I had this low-grade dread, like I was filing a report nobody asked for. The posts weren't bad, but they weren't me. They were me going through the motions because I'd committed to a cadence.

So I'm done with it. No more weekly recommendations.

Here's the thing: if I'm not excited to write something, you're probably not excited to read it. And "one rec a week" had turned into exactly that, an obligation I was dragging myself to fulfill instead of something I actually wanted to do.

What I do want to write about is what I've been building lately. I've got a few projects going, and honestly the process of making them has been way more interesting than any product I could point you toward. That means the actual building, what's working, what's broken, what it's like to vibe-code your way through a problem at 11pm and wake up the next morning genuinely surprised it held together.

No brand deals. No promotional angles. Just what it's actually like to make stuff.

That's what's coming next.