Paid to write software. Compelled to speak.https://alexisduran.comhttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#productionhttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#productionThe only environment that tells the truth. Your local bubble is a flatterer.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#distributionhttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#distributionThe 80% nobody warns you about. Building the app was the easy part.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#kill-podcasthttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#kill-podcastWrapped after four and a half years. Turns out the retrospective finally needed a retrospective.Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#no-es-solo-codigohttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#no-es-solo-codigoA weekly retrospective podcast — a colleague and I thinking out loud about web programming, half to teach others, half to teach ourselves. 2019–2024.Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#crafthttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#craftThe willingness to redo the part nobody will ever scroll back to look at.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#estimatehttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#estimateA lie told to a calendar.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#vibe-coderhttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#vibe-coderA scapegoat invented in 2025. The tools didn't lower the bar — they stopped hiding where yours already was.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#ownershiphttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#ownershipThe opposite of "the AI got it wrong." You shipped it. The model doesn't sign its name — you do.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#contexthttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#contextWhat AI coding is actually about. It compounds — so stop rebuilding it from scratch every session.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#shippinghttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#shippingThe act that converts an opinion into evidence. Until then it's a draft of a belief.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#footgunhttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#footgunA feature that makes the easy path the wrong one. Good engineers earn their reputation by avoiding them.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#rauschhttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#rauschNietzsche's name for the heightened state art comes out of — proof the philosophers were mapping peak performance a century before the psychologists arrived.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#tacticalhttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#tacticalHow you treat your time once you stop accepting "I don't have time" as a reason.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#duranhttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#duranPaid to write software. Compelled to speak. Talks too much; revises later. Reachable at hello@alexisduran.com.https://alexisduran.com/ledger/#libardohttps://alexisduran.com/ledger/#libardoThe 'Libardo' in Libardo Alexis Duran Martinez — my real first name, the one only my parents use, and only when I'm in trouble.