# mentor.work

> Building software from Europe — sharing real projects, engineering notes, failures, and quiet developer life.
Author: MervinLocation: Dublin, IrelandLanguage: en
RSS: https://mentor.work/rss.xml
Sitemap: https://mentor.work/sitemap.xml
JSON feed: https://mentor.work/api/articles

This file follows the llmstxt.org convention. Each article has a plain-text version at /api/articles/<slug>/ai for direct LLM ingestion.

## Categories

- [Notes](https://mentor.work/notes) — Field notes from real engineering work
- [Mistakes](https://mentor.work/mistakes) — Failures + lessons that cost time
- [Thinking](https://mentor.work/thinking) — Essays + opinions on building software
- [Builds](https://mentor.work/builds) — Project build logs, end-to-end
- [Guides](https://mentor.work/guides) — How-tos on real problems I have solved

## Articles

- [Welcome to mentor.work](https://mentor.work/notes/welcome) — Notes · 2026-05-15 · AI version: https://mentor.work/api/articles/welcome/ai
  First post on mentor.work — a quiet log of building software in Europe.