The Archive
Posts about stuffs nobody puts in their LinkedIn.
Reading How to Calm Your Mind While Trying to Live It
Read several pages between commuting.
4 min readI Used to Drink 6 Red Bulls to Ship Code. Now I Just Ask AI. And I Kind of Miss the Struggle.
Deep mastery built through friction, versus fluent shipping built through AI. I still don't know which engineer I'm becoming.
3 min readThe Blog That Died Three Times
A ten-year blogging journey from .blogspot.com to self-hosted Ghost, with some embarrassing detours along the way.
5 min readI Spent a Weekend Rebuilding My Personal Site.
My homepage had no hero card. That was the itch that kicked off two days of Ghost theme fixes, live data integrations, and server automation.
4 min readThe AI Code Reviewer That Skips Itself When It Doesn't Apply
Forty percent of my agent spend was buying silence.
4 min readThe AI tax I didn't know I was paying
There's a hidden cost to AI-assisted coding: the tokens you pay for before the model gets to the actual work.
4 min readThe Family Nobody Announced
Nobody declared it. No company email, no values poster. It just grew — and then, slowly, it scattered.
3 min readThe Day I Left Home and Nearly Fell Over
Leaving a long job isn't a job change. It's a small loss — and the dizziness on day one was my body figuring that out before my mind did.
3 min read