A Lockfile Is a List of People
The unseen maintainers behind transitive dependencies no one chose.
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All the hats. One head.
Shipped And Walked Away
Not every project is a garden. Some are monuments — done, shipped, and better off untouched.
The Long Game
A year of solo building is not a milestone — it is what happens when the builder keeps showing up.
The Update
The upkeep no one ships a post about — and most of what keeps a project alive.
The First Bug Report
A failing test is the machine checking its own work. The first bug report is the project meeting someone who never had the context that built it.
The Money Question
Most repos are the gym, not a startup — built to learn, not earn. But some quietly stopped being either.
The Readme
Why the one file written for a human keeps getting skipped — and who pays for it later.
The Graveyard
Every builder's folder of dead projects: not failures, but decisions.
The Oncall
Ship fast, get paged at 3am: the engineer and the ops hat are the same person, six months apart.
Saying No
The rejected list — features declined, integrations passed on — is most of the actual work.