Hello, world (again)
Why I'm starting a journal, and what you can expect to find here.
My portfolio shows the finished projects. This blog is for everything around them: the half-working prototypes, the hackathon weekends, the homelab rabbit holes, and the bits of CS that finally clicked.
What I'll post here
- Project write-ups: how something was built, what went wrong, and what I'd do differently.
- Hackathon recaps: the idea, the 3am pivots, and the result.
- Homelab notes: configs, monitoring, and the occasional broken server.
- Things I'm learning: algorithms, AI tooling, cloud, whatever I'm deep in that month.
A lot of my building now happens alongside AI coding tools, mostly Claude Code. When that's the case I'll say so, and I'll be honest about where the tool helped and where it got things wrong. Those posts are tagged claude-code.
Writing it down is the fastest way to find out whether I actually understand it.