Development Diary

The story of building Unified DNS. Technical decisions, lessons learned, and honest reflections from the journey.

• The DNS Hosting Pivot
  2026-07-08 · 10 min read
  Unified DNS was built to manage every provider from one place. That only works if the provider actually lets you in. This is the story of the registrars that wouldn't, the MSPs who told me to stop waiting on them, and an infrastructure decision that kept me up more nights than the actual coding did.
• The Go-Live Audit
  2026-02-20 · 6 min read
  Big features are fun to build, but preparing for go-live means confronting the less glamorous side of development: hunting down TODOs, removing half-finished features, and making honest decisions about what actually belongs in the product. 16 files deleted. 37 files modified. 5,542 lines removed.