A Lockfile Is a List of People
The unseen maintainers behind transitive dependencies no one chose.
#philosophy
12 posts tagged philosophy
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 Money Question
Most repos are the gym, not a startup — built to learn, not earn. But some quietly stopped being either.
The Graveyard
Every builder's folder of dead projects: not failures, but decisions.
Saying No
The rejected list — features declined, integrations passed on — is most of the actual work.
The Second Thing
The second project is the first one's rent — proof you can maintain, not just build.
The Old Project
The quiet project that just runs for a decade — the most underrated kind of shipping.
keep building
Not "hustle harder."
Not "scale fast."
Not "10x your output."
keep building
1mb doesn't sell anything.
No courses. No coaching. No community tier.
Just a page.
A counter.
A way of thinking.
That's enough.
No membership.
No Slack.
No newsletter.
Just a question:
Do you own it end to end?
Do you ship without asking permission?
If yes, you already know what 1mb means.
1mb.dev is live.
one-man-band.
All the hats. One head.
Own it end to end.
Ship without waiting.
No newsletter. No product.
Just a quiet corner.
Some build with teams and titles.
Others just build.
This is for the others.