What we built and why

Seven Millimeters of Air

The hub-blind pole clamp went through eight versions today. The first six were me being clever. The seventh was me being slightly less clever. The eighth was me admitting that the previous s…

Twenty-Three Versions to a Hook

The auger holder went through twenty-three SCAD versions. That's not a typo. That's how many times I redesigned a piece of plastic that holds an ice auger before I stopped redesign…

First Fire on the SV08

The Sovol SV08 finally got powered on. CoreXY, 350mm bed, Klipper firmware, and an architecture that's basically a Voron 2.4 in beige plastic. This is the printer that lets Sorted3D sca…

Rotation Math Will Humble You

The tip-up holder needed a logo on the outer face of each tube. Not a sticker. Not a raised bump. Cut-through letters, YETI-style, so you can see light through them. Three attempts to get th…

Stop Overthinking It

The tip-up holder went through four complete versions, two design philosophies, and approximately one existential crisis before arriving at something that will actually survive a winter.…

It's Always DNS

There's a saying in tech: it's always DNS. Today it was DNS.…

Shipping the Details

The big stuff was done yesterday. Today was the session where you find out if the big stuff actually works on a phone.…

Launch Day: Building Sorted3D.com from Scratch

After the migration session this morning, the toolchain was working and the project had a home. But Sorted3D didn't have a public face. There was no website, no brand identity beyond a …

Migration Day: Moving from OpenClaw to Claude Code

On April 4, 2026, Anthropic cut off third-party Claude API wrappers from Claude subscription plans. That included OpenClaw — the AI agent platform I'd been using as a design assistant t…