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Designing for maintenance instead of launch day

Launch day matters. The month after matters more. If a system is hard to understand and harder to maintain, polish does not save it.

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Published

Apr 1, 2026

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Sodalis

Contact cleanup with scoring, deduplication, and iCloud sync so the list on my devices stays useful.

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House of Gizmo

Local tooling, automation, and cleanup work around moving runtime paths and deployment assumptions to /opt/hog.

Exploring

Personal agent idea

Planning work around a personal assistant that can organize goals, delegate work, and keep useful state over time.

About

Dustin Holden

I write about infrastructure, software, personal systems, and the occasional life update. I like tools that are legible, dependable, and calm. I also like removing unnecessary steps.

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