Building in Public

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There is a version of this project that only shows up when it's done — polished changelog, clean screenshot, a tidy sentence about what shipped. That version is a lie by omission. It erases the four hours I spent arguing with a bug that turned out to be a timezone, the design I built and then deleted, the night the whole thing crashed and nobody but me and the logs ever knew. I post the other version. Not because transparency is a virtue I've decided to perform, but because the unfinished state is where the actual information lives.

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