Conor Chepenik · the person behind Binmucker

I build small, useful things and write to understand why.

Binmucker is my personal internet home base: part project shelf, part public notebook, part daily desk, and part invitation to follow whatever I build next.

How the pieces fit

Writing is the thread.

I committed to writing every day, whether I felt inspired or not. That practice became the foundation for the tools, books, experiments, and ideas collected here. Writing forces clarity; building tests whether the clarity survives contact with reality.

My interest in Bitcoin grew from curiosity into a wider exploration of sound money, decentralization, self-custody, and personal sovereignty. Those ideas sit alongside work about better businesses, health, breathing, games, education, and whatever else seems worth understanding by making something.

Operating principles

What guides the work.

Build for a real need

Most projects begin as something I want to use myself. If it proves useful, I share it.

Write toward clarity

Daily writing is how I test ideas, notice patterns, and turn vague thoughts into workable ones.

Prefer ownership

Bitcoin, Lightning, sound money, sovereignty, and self-custody shape how I think about tools and incentives.

Protect attention

Health, family, breathing, and focused software matter because useful work needs a human being behind it.

A few places to begin

Useful, curious, sometimes strange.

Still in motion

The site is a map, not a monument.

I keep writing, building, and revising. The searchable directory is the best way to see the whole drawer.

Open everything