dshan

Lately

GitHub recorded this much movement in the last 30 days:

contributions across 28 active days.

The rhythm

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August 5 → September 3   · = nothing   █ = a lot

*Most repos stay private. GitHub publishes the counts. That seems like the right amount of internet.

Current work

1. Software for people who run firms.

   Dashboards, plans, proposals, data pipes, and tools that tie the mess together.

   Moving today.

2. A small fleet of useful agents.

   They live in Slack, remember the work, handle the repetitive parts, and know when to leave a human in charge.

   Moving today.

3. A CRM made of ordinary files.

   People and companies stored as Markdown, versioned in git, and legible to both humans and machines.

   Moving today.

4. Boring machinery.

   Backups, imports, exports, syncs, and monitors. The work nobody notices when it works.

   Still moving.

See the public scraps on GitHub

Selected things from the pile

• Vee

  An AI teammate for the people who help law-firm owners run better firms.

• Big Truck Pics

  A stock-photo business for an industry that deserves better than the same eleven highway photos.

• Jeffco Crew

  A machine that finds a county’s events and turns them into a useful local email.

• GM Display

  A full-screen home for digital art that otherwise stays trapped in a wallet.

• Patrick Grange Memorial Foundation

  Awareness and research in memory of the first American soccer player diagnosed with CTE.

Dozens more sit in the archive. Some worked; the failures taught me plenty.

Two notes

Shipping beats planning
A rough thing in the world teaches you more than a perfect thing in a doc.

Tiny markets are not tiny
Specific, recurring problems leave plenty of room for useful software.