Twenty years of
shipped software.

Sean Yalda · Engineer & designer · Los Angeles
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The designer and
the engineer are
the same person.

Startups, agencies, a science museum, a city government, an esports league through three funding rounds — I was the designer, the engineer, and usually both.

These days the center of gravity is agent systems and web infrastructure: tools like Breaking Changes and Board, shipped end to end, then written up honestly — including the parts that stung.

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Essay · Jul 2026 The NAS I
didn’t buy.

Ninety terabytes of recertified rust, a $120 HBA with no thermometer, and the research that let a mini PC beat the appliance NAS.

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