Setting out

This is the first entry of a logbook I’ve wanted to keep for a long time. Not a blog, exactly. A logbook. Sailors keep them because the details of a passage matter more than the destination. You write down the wind, the bearing, the thing you almost got wrong. You come back to it later and see the shape of a season.

I want to do that with my work.

I’ve spent the last three years as a DevOps Engineer at DeepL, building pipelines and infrastructure engineers use to ship. I’m now starting to move from that role into building something of my own. Still inside the same orbit: developer experience, platform engineering, and AI tooling. This logbook is where I’ll try to think in public about that transition.

What to expect here

Long-form, prose-first entries on the problems I’ve encountered and the things I learned. On developer experience as a product with real impact on how an organization performs. And occasionally on the things that live outside of tech. Sailing, music, dancing, living.

I don’t plan to ship a lot of writing. I plan to ship a little of it, carefully. Some entries will read like small essays; some will be closer to field notes. I’d rather publish one careful thing a month than ten shallow ones a week.

An invitation

If something here is useful to you, I would love to hear from you. If something here is wrong, tell me that too.

First heading. Course set. Wind steady enough.