I started building Taproot I/O, a publishing platform, because I had a number of web domains sitting around doing nothing. I've been a full stack software engineer for over a quarter century, and I took one look at WordPress's bloated ecosystem and decided I wanted to build something better. The idea has been rattling around in my head, in one form or another, for over a decade.

If you're curious how I got here, I wrote about 26 years of building software, from Y2K to AI. For how we actually build Taproot, start with contract-driven development, documentation-first development, and why we moved to a monorepo.