Building Series
What Claude Code Got Right (and Wrong) Building a Terraform Provider
Shipping a Terraform provider with an AI assistant went smoothly. The interesting part is what stayed my job anyway.
What I Cut When I Redesigned leolem.dev
The redesign added a new color palette and a simpler structure. The part that actually mattered was what I deleted.
Shipping Something That Isn't Useful
I just released my debut EP, *Months*, under my music project Again and Again. It won't become a product, and it probably won't make any money. That's exactly why I'm glad I made it.
Interesting Ideas vs Defensible Research
I started my thesis expecting exploration and experimentation. I finished it understanding how much research is really about defensibility. And why I probably do not want to stay in academia.
How I Rebuilt Almost? From a Reflection App Into a Behavior Change System
Almost? started as a reflection app for logging near misses. I rebuilt it into a behavior change system that captures almosts, reviews patterns, and turns them into practical adjustments.
Vigil III: What Feedback Actually Changed in My Thesis
Feedback did not just polish my thesis. It changed the framework early on, and later changed how that framework had to be written.
Vigil II: From Draft to Defensible
How I turned months of building Vigil into a thesis that can survive being read, by writing in phases, using ChatGPT for early drafts, and treating case studies as pressure tests rather than proof.
Vigil I: Designing a Framework for Verifying Behavior
How a fuzzy thesis topic turned into a framework I could actually run.
How My Thesis Idea Took Shape
A brief look at how a vague interest turned into a concrete research direction.
My First Paid Freelance Project
A look back at building a small Firebase-powered MVP.
ngrms - Simplifying Anagrams with SwiftData and CloudKit
A journey from complexity to simplicity in building a collaborative anagrams game.
StudentScroll?
A full-stack social platform for students, developed in a five-person team during my exchange semester in New Zealand.
Almost? From Portfolio to Product
A retrospective on building and rebuilding one of my first iOS apps.
Building Smokes - From MVP to the App Store
How a small smoking tracker app turned into a published SwiftUI project, and what I learned from it.
Building my website with Astro
A journey through creating my personal website using Astro.