Most engineering writing opens by justifying itself: the market gap, the pain point, the hours saved. Mitxela mostly skips that. He builds a synthesiser into a DIN plug because it’s funny that it fits, and the write-up is about whether it fits, not about whom it’s for.
That’s a real position, not an absence of one. A project that has to justify itself gets designed by the justification — you stop at the first version that clears the bar. A project that exists because it’s fun keeps going until it’s good, because the only reason to continue is that continuing is the point.
It also changes what you’re willing to attempt. Nobody greenlights “make it absurdly small” on a spreadsheet, but that’s exactly where the constraint does the creative work.
The catch is that fun is not a plan. It gets you a pile of finished oddities, which is a wonderful thing to have and a terrible thing to depend on. Worth knowing which one you’re doing at any given moment.