Design decisions, post-mortems, and lessons from building production systems.
Technical decisions behind a blog-focused portfolio site. Why I chose App Router over Pages Router, how MDX affects build time, and deployment constraints that influenced architecture.
Building a retrieval-augmented generation system for government use without cloud dependencies. Challenges in PDF parsing, embedding strategies, and hallucination prevention.
A local-only Windows productivity monitor using Rust, SQLite, and Windows API. Designed for immutability, offline operation, and runtime enforcement of work habits.
A privacy-first Android launcher that enforces discipline through friction, not persuasion. Built with Kotlin for those who view their phone as a precision tool, not a toy.
Building a real-time chat platform for habit accountability groups. Challenges in WebSocket state synchronization, Postgres schema evolution, and connection recovery.