[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"home-blog":3},[4,38],{"id":5,"title":6,"body":7,"category":24,"date":25,"description":26,"extension":27,"image":28,"meta":29,"navigation":30,"path":31,"readTime":32,"seo":33,"stem":34,"tags":35,"__hash__":37},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fon-building-things.md","On building things that last",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":20},"minimark",[10,14,17],[11,12,13],"p",{},"There's a certain satisfaction in finishing something properly. Not just shipping it — actually finishing it. The kind of finish where you look at the code two weeks later and it still makes sense.",[11,15,16],{},"I've been thinking about this more since starting to work on larger systems. The temptation to move fast is always there. But speed without care is just technical debt in disguise.",[11,18,19],{},"Quality is a habit, not a phase.",{"title":21,"searchDepth":22,"depth":22,"links":23},"",2,[],"Craft","2026-04-08","Why I'd rather build one solid thing than ship ten half-finished ones.","md","https:\u002F\u002Fimages.unsplash.com\u002Fphoto-1601321268954-22646044f7d0?w=1200&q=80",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fon-building-things","4 min read",{"title":6,"description":26},"blog\u002Fon-building-things",[24,36],"Development","l9I4E2KWzE3UDuAfTJAiDT0U14KwTpGtHjiB2kuDbmQ",{"id":39,"title":40,"body":41,"category":54,"date":55,"description":56,"extension":27,"image":28,"meta":57,"navigation":30,"path":58,"readTime":59,"seo":60,"stem":61,"tags":62,"__hash__":65},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fthe-art-of-finishing.md","The art of actually finishing things",{"type":8,"value":42,"toc":52},[43,46,49],[11,44,45],{},"The hardest part of any project is the last 20%. The exciting bit is long gone. The hard architectural decisions are made. What's left is the grinding work of making it actually good.",[11,47,48],{},"Most people abandon things here. They call it \"done enough\" or start something new. I used to do this constantly.",[11,50,51],{},"What changed: I started treating that last stretch as the actual product. The rest is just setup.",{"title":21,"searchDepth":22,"depth":22,"links":53},[],"Mindset","2026-04-03","Most ideas die in the 80% zone. Here's how I stopped being one of those people.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fthe-art-of-finishing","3 min read",{"title":40,"description":56},"blog\u002Fthe-art-of-finishing",[63,64],"Focus","Productivity","cPVEYWkcWt1EpHz2MPMeCFq1ZofRezgMgJOgeG9kG-Y"]