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2026-04-29 21:00
Privacy-first mind mapping app. Part 6: Maintainability and Coding Rules
This is the chapter where I admit something simple: clean code talks are nice, but products are built in history, not in slides.
When MindMapVault was small, I could hold most of it in my head. Then the project grew into frontend work, desktop work, encryption flows, uploads, backend routes, different database paths, deployment scripts, release notes, and a lot of "just fix this one thing" days.
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