Cabra Borracha · Stories
Art, apps, fishing holes, and whatever else I'm thinking about. All from Manvel, Texas.
I started with the Philippines, spent three weeks going down a research rabbit hole, and ended up with 40 pages of actual data. I haven't moved abroad yet. The obsession is real anyway.
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Everyone's phone looks the same. Stock icons, default grid, zero personality. I started designing icon sets because good craft deserves better than whatever Apple shipped by default.
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Etsy is a search engine first and a marketplace second. The gap between "I made something I'm proud of" and "someone bought it" is real — and humbling.
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Nobody in Manvel cares what you're building. Turns out that's the most freeing creative environment I've ever worked in. Also the fishing is excellent.
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I am deeply frugal. I also have more watches than any reasonable person needs. The justification logic is airtight — and completely made up. I've accepted this about myself.
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I spent 15 years in IT and never wrote a line of code. Then I started building apps anyway. Here's what I learned, what blew up in my face, and how five of them ended up live on the App Store.
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Full-time job. Girlfriend. Two cats. An hour and a half between dinner and bed. Here's how I actually get work done and why painting at night feels different than anything else.
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I kept losing my best spots. No app did exactly what I wanted. So I built Honey Hole — a fishing log that remembers your spots, conditions, and what actually worked.
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Cabra = goat (Capricorn). Borracha = drunk. The brand is eclectic by design — art, merch, apps, fishing, photography. The drunk goat doesn't apologize for being all over the place. Neither do I.
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