Starting a notes section

I kept the projects on this site short on purpose — a blurb, a stack, a link. But the interesting part of building something is rarely the finished result. It's the wrong turns, the thing that took three hours to debug, the small realization that changes how you approach the next one.

So this is where that goes. Notes is a running log of what I'm learning while I build.

What I'll write about

Mostly the stuff I wish someone had written down for me:

• Debugging sessions that taught me something non-obvious
• Decisions I made and whether they held up
• Small wins that felt bigger than they were

Why bother

Writing something down forces you to actually understand it. If I can't explain why a fix worked, I probably got lucky rather than learning. These notes are the difference between the two.

First real post coming soon — likely about the HTTP caching proxy I'm building in C.