Bug fixes and an internal code cleanup.

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Finally pushed v1.0 of the design tokens library we've been using internally. 200 stars overnight Did not see that coming on a Tuesday.

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.

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.

Preview of a thing I've been writing: a one-page guide to the patterns I keep reaching for in Next.js 16. Out next month, but the rough cut is up if you want to read along.

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.

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

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.

Published `next-cache-recipes` — a tiny repo of cache pattern examples for Next.js 16. Per-route, per-user, mutation invalidation, all in one place.

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.

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.