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Building UrbanPulse: From Messy City APIs to a Data Product
City APIs disagree about almost everything. I built UrbanPulse to make their weather, air and mobility data usable together.
How to Build Things When You’re the Entire Dev Team
The frontend needs you. So does the database. A few things I learned building projects with an engineering team of one.
Building a RAG System: What Happens Before the Answer
The chat box was easy. Finding the right bit of a document took rather more work. What I learned building a RAG system.
Watching the Competition, Politely
I like watching what competitors do. I like opening forty tabs less. So I built something to notice the changes for me.
What 12 Side Projects Taught Me About Building Data Systems
Slow dashboards, broken pipelines and a few unnecessary models. Twelve side projects taught me what actually makes a data system useful.
Ten Thousand Sensors, One Question: Can I Trust the Alert?
A sensor keeps reporting the same number. Is everything fine, or is it stuck? My anomaly detector needed more than a model.
Monday Journal: Awareness, Clarity and the Bones of Survival
Seeing things clearly sounds peaceful. Sometimes it just gives you more to carry. A few thoughts on feeling deeply and keeping going.
Monday Journal: Change of Heart, Change of Thought…
I wanted cartoons. My father wanted the news. Years later, I caught myself taking his side. Apparently priorities have a shelf life.
Monday Journal: Problems, Smarts and the Way It Goes
A life without problems sounds lovely. Until it gets boring. I think I'd rather get better at choosing which ones deserve my afternoon.
What Does It Mean to Be Intelligent?
Good grades tell one story. How you handle people, problems and yourself tells others. I started wondering what being smart really means.
Welcome to My Corner of the Internet
I kept collecting questions about code, books and people. Eventually they needed somewhere to go. This blog is me thinking out loud.
YMovies: Creating a Movie Recommendation Web App
Netflix recommended a film. I wondered how. Somehow that turned into YMovies, a recommendation app with more plumbing than expected.