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Just shipped a tiny site that turns my conference talk outlines into a public reading list. drop.aurora.dev — eight years of notes, finally somewhere other than my Notes app.

Spent the weekend vibe-coding a little tool that compares my Spotify history against my partner's. Just shipped it for the two of us. Tiny audience, big smile.

Released a 90-line app that turns my voice memos into to-do items. It will never get a landing page. I use it every morning.

The thing nobody tells you about shipping small: the smaller it is, the more honest it feels. The app I'm proudest of this year is 240 lines and three people use it.

Drafting in public for the first time. The conference badge generator I have been threatening to build for two summers is finally a real URL. v0.1, but it's a URL.

Built a thing this afternoon that emails me a single sentence every Sunday: what did you make this week? It's the only newsletter I subscribe to where I'm both writer and reader.

Shipped a Slack bot for our team that finds the oldest open PR every Monday and just posts it No reminders, no escalation. The PR usually gets reviewed by Tuesday.

Today's small ship an RSS feed for my talks. I keep forgetting which conferences I said yes to. Now I just subscribe to myself.

Made a one-pager that explains my partner's job to my mom. It's the most read thing I'll ship this year. Sometimes the audience is small on purpose.

Vibe-coded a tiny CRM for the dog walker my building hired. Took an evening, costs $0/mo, replaces a spreadsheet that was making her stop walking Shipping doesn't need a roadmap.

Launched a tiny landing page generator for my workshops. Pick a template, drop in the dates, deploy. Eight clicks instead of an afternoon. Felt nice.

Just shipped a side-by-side comparison view to our app Two engineers asked for it independently within a week, which I've learned is the actual signal.

Released the Sunday-night reading list I've been keeping in Notes for a year. The whole point is it doesn't grow on a schedule. I drop a link when I find one I trust.

We launched. After eighteen months. The interview pipeline tool nobody on our team enjoyed building is live, and the recruiters love it. Sometimes that's the win.

Pushed a long-overdue rewrite of my blog tonight. Same posts, much faster, finally on the latest framework I've been writing about. Felt good to ship something small.

Encouragement nobody asked for: ship the thing that has one user It teaches you more than the thing with the polished pitch deck.

Two-year retro: every project I shipped in public got me something the private ones didn't. Sometimes a job, sometimes a friend, sometimes just the next idea. Worth the awkward first post every time.

Released Drop today — the demo I'll be using at React Summit next week. It's a small social network built from scratch over two weeks. Everything in this feed is real.