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Building in public

Design decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons from making the constellation.

Building in public · Kenya

From Kikuyu memory to useful modern tools

Memory is not only storage. It is place, relationship, repetition, naming, and the ability to recover meaning when the moment has passed. Useful software should respect that richer idea. Names carry a model Hadithi is a story.

Apps · Building in public

The constellation, not the monolith

A monolith can be technically neat while becoming conceptually enormous. A scattered fleet can be technically separate while forcing people to repeat themselves everywhere.

Building in public · Kenya

Why we build software that leaves you with less to manage

Software often asks people to become unpaid operators of the software itself. More settings, more dashboards, more alerts, and more rituals arrive before the useful work begins.