The Overclocker’s Year

How I built 11 apps to avoid writing one book.

I intended to write a trilogy of children’s novels this year.

I wrote very few words of fiction. Instead, I shipped eleven software prototypes.

These projects weren’t spontaneous inventions. They were excavations. For years, they had existed as digital detritus - dormant seeds buried deep in my file structures, one-line concepts in my notes app, and half-…