Building in the Margins: Why I’m Spending the Next 3 Years Creating "Sidekick"
Why I'm spending the next 3 years building Sidekick in the open — mastering the full stack without vibe-coding.
Read the essayThoughts, ideas, plans, builds, decisions, and learning logs from Sidekick — an open-source personal operating system being built inch by inch, with human + machine collaboration, between my full-time job and raising two high-schoolers. Two-to-three-year horizon.
Why I'm spending the next 3 years building Sidekick in the open — mastering the full stack without vibe-coding.
Read the essayTasks are grouped into phases. Each phase is a shippable milestone — by the end of it, something real and working exists that you can use, demo, or build on top of. Phases are sequenced to minimize…
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