# code

I got tired of our family's private life living on someone else's servers, so I built our own messaging app. Shopping lists, read receipts, calls and all. Here's the why, the trade-offs, and what it is actually like to run it.

The people I build for don't care about my stack. only that it works and helps them. What it's like to build software for your wife, your mom, your friends, where a bug isn't a ticket, it's personal.

The same person who rode off solo into 33 countries is now building software solo. What the solitude inside a helmet taught me about the solitude at a keyboard.

Once you've got a web application running locally on your machine, if you want to access it on the internet, you've got to deploy it.