Manifest
Software, made like a thing.
Building things is the part of the work I love most. After ten years of writing software for other people’s products, the stuff I kept coming back to in the evenings was my own — small tools I built because I needed them, then kept improving because making things is its own reward.
Digital Craft Workshop is where those tools live. It’s a showcase of what I’ve shipped, a build-in-public log of what I’m working on now, and a place where I write up the technical how-tos and the implementation stories — the stuff I wish someone had written down for me when I started.
Three things happen here. Tools — Drippery is live; Subhook, Archive Concierge, and Framelock are early-stage and building in public. Writing — build notes, technical deep-dives, and the occasional implementation story, on the blog and on Substack. Experiments— small things I try because I’m curious, that sometimes turn into the next bench-tool.
None of this is a startup. No round, no growth team, no plan to be a unicorn. The output is software you can use, made by a person you could actually email.
How the workshop works
- Build in public. Decisions, mistakes, working theories — written up on the blog and in the newsletter as they happen, not retroactively in a victory lap.
- Tools made by users. Every tool here started because I needed it for my own work. Drippery sends my own newsletter sequences. Archive Concierge indexes my own archive. Subhook routes my own inbox. Dogfood is the spec.
- No growth hacks. No cohort traps, no exit-intent popups, no urgency timers, no "achievement unlocked" toasts. The product has to be good enough on its own.
- Free now, paid later. The newsletter is free. Once the readership crosses a threshold I'll add a paid tier — not a paywall on the writing, but early access to new tools as they ship from the bench.
About Daniel
I’m Daniel Rusnok. Ten years of writing software, currently full-time as a senior full-stack engineer. I’ve worked across React, TypeScript, .NET, Azure, distributed systems, and DDD — mostly on other people’s products. The workshop is where I build my own.
I’m a partner and a father, working from a home office in the evenings. The thing that keeps me at the keyboard after the day job is the same thing that got me into this in the first place: making something out of nothing is a craft, and crafts get better the more you do them.
If you want to follow along, the newsletter is the place. I send build notes, decisions, and the occasional implementation story — written as the work happens, not after.
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Free. A few emails a week. Mostly notes from the bench.