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What Did David Do: An Engineering Week With Receipts

whatdiddaviddo.com ↗ · Personal Pages · score 88.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A nine-card journal documenting one engineer’s week across ShopBack, IntentHQ, and Nature’s Fusions.

Why it surfaced

David records 26 merged pull requests, 21 meetings, 19 hours on video, and the failures that survived the week—including a retrieval fix he admits was oversold and two pull requests marked “DO NOT MERGE.” Its unusually specific account of projects, metrics, and corrections makes the page feel more like an engineering logbook than a portfolio.

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