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Six Weeks of Building in Public: What Actually Happened

I started publishing everything I built six weeks ago. Eight repositories, zero marketing budget, one unexpected outcome: writing about the work changed how I do the work.

Rene Fichtmueller / 2026-05-13 / ~2 min read min read
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MAGATAMA 勾玉: Building a Security System That Learns From Every Fix

MAGATAMA is evolving from a security dashboard into a system that detects, prioritizes, remediates, verifies and learns from real incidents.

Rene Fichtmueller / 2026-04-21 / ~3 min read min read
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What I Built in 30 Days With My Local LLM Stack

In 30 days, I built over 20 production projects using my local AI model stack, achieving what would have taken months with traditional methods.

Rene Fichtmueller / 2026-04-10 / ~2 min read min read
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ADHD Diary #002: No-Travel-Day — 155 Commits in 8 Days

155 commits. 8 days. 8 projects. 74 new features. 62 bug fixes. Those are the raw numbers from a week that was nothing special. No sprint, no hackathon, no deadline

Rene Fichtmueller / 2026-04-06 / ~3 min read min read