The blog.

Once the machine was up, the first thing I did was set up a Minecraft server. Hit a few snags along the way — none of them hard to work around.

Oracle's free tier specs are surprisingly generous. It took me two attempts to get in — and there was a charge along the way I really wasn't expecting.

The final part. How the contact form actually sends email with Resend, what the colophon records, and why hitting publish is harder than writing the code.

Next.js 16's App Router isn't what I expected. The MDX blog design decisions. And a CSS animation that took an embarrassingly long time to get right.

Most developers have an unfinished personal website somewhere. This time I started from design philosophy instead of a template. Part one covers why, and the questions nobody asks you but you have to answer yourself.

OLLM is a BYOK AI chat platform built on Next.js. Here's the architecture — SSE streaming, competitive race condition guards, and the OKLCH color space rabbit hole I fell into.

My MAIC competition entry. The goal was to build a focus timer that detects your context automatically — using device orientation, geofencing, and a finite state machine to tie it together.

A retrospective on building a cross-platform game companion app from scratch — the technical decisions, the fires, and the part where the server got compromised.

Honestly, mostly coursework. But also some thinking I'm glad I did.

'Ship fast, iterate' is good advice. I've been applying it in the wrong places.

A few things that actually work, and a couple of things that feel productive but aren't.

Three months, two finished things, one abandoned thing, and some notes on what made the difference.

I was part of Deebug before I knew what I was doing. By 2024 I was co-founding a product inside it. Here's what that arc looked like.

I never studied design formally. But every side project I've shipped has taught me something a classroom probably wouldn't.