Choosing the first public project
How I am thinking about what belongs on the project bench first — useful, specific, and teachable.
- projects
- process
The public workbench on this site should not be a portfolio of everything we have ever touched. It should be a curated set of work that teaches something: a useful pattern, a honest failure, a prototype worth studying.
Three criteria I am using to pick what goes first:
Useful. The project should solve a real problem, even if the version on the site is simplified or anonymized. A demo that only looks good in screenshots does not belong here.
Specific. Generic CRUD apps and todo lists are easy to build and hard to learn from. I want entries where the constraints shaped the design — field workflows, hardware interfaces, data that arrives messy.
Teachable. Each entry should leave the reader with something reusable: an architectural choice, a integration pattern, a lesson about scope.
The first batch will likely include internal tools and experiments that became client-facing systems. More on those as they are ready to share.