Two clocks

Aerospace runs on one clock. The PC-12/47G’s communication and surveillance systems went from a requirement on paper to an EASA type certificate on 18 December 2024: hundreds of pages of evidence and one signature. That’s normal in this industry, and I don’t mind it: a slow clock is exactly what you want when the thing you’re building isn’t allowed to fail at 30,000 feet.

Everything else I do runs on a different clock. Lodestar ships an agent in weeks. DailyStock’s roadmap changes on a Tuesday because a user asked for something on Monday. The homelab gets refactored on a whim because a launchd job annoyed me on a Sunday. I like keeping both clocks running: one keeps me honest, the other keeps me moving.

This site is where the second clock lives in public. No schedule beyond “when there’s something worth writing down.”