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Engineering, products, and what holds up in production.
Essays on full-stack craft, UX, AI as a tool, and founder reality — from a staff engineer who still ships.
🎓 UX Decisions I Made Creating a Tech Trainings Page in 3 Days
I built a training page in 3 days. Here are the UX decisions behind mobile keyboard spacing, receipt-style pricing, calendar integration, and form validation that make booking flows actually convert.
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📖 I Published My Book on Amazon KDP and Made 10x Less Than on My Own Store
I published a technical book on Amazon KDP and tracked the numbers for a month. The royalty math, the pricing dead zone between $10 and $20, and a 10x revenue gap compared to selling direct.
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😱 I Almost Lost $50,000 Worth of Stock Photo Licences in One Afternoon
A routine login failure nearly cost me $50,000 in proof of stock photo licences my agency had already used for clients. Here is the crisis, the fix, and why I finally turned that fix into a public service this month.
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🚗 I Got a $40 Parking Fine, So I'm Building an App That Fixes It
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📄 75% of Coding Resumes Get Rejected by Robots; I Built a Tool to Prevent That
About 6 months ago I was looking for a new job. During that time I learned firsthand how the modern hiring pipeline works. You spend 45 minutes crafting a resume, hit submit, and no one sees it anyway.
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AI Didn't Kill Instagram. Instagram Killed Instagram.
Instagram's head Adam Mosseri recently declared that the polished aesthetic that made Instagram popular is dead, and AI helped kill it. This narrative is convenient but wrong. AI didn't kill Instagram. Instagram killed Instagram years before AI-generated content became widespread
Read moreHow to Validate Your Startup Idea for Free in 2025 (No Tech Skills Needed)
Today, anyone — anywhere in the world — can disrupt entire markets from the comfort of their apartment.
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Summon The JSON: From Fantasy to Functionality — The Evolution of Coding Decks
The journey of Summon The JSON began with a spark of creativity — combining programming education with the magic of card games. Over the…
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From Blender to Business Strategy: My Quest to Make Summon The JSON Decks a Sustainable Success
As the high season approaches, I’m diving deep into every detail to make Summon The JSON decks a hit — from creating new renders in…
Read moreHow I made Summon The JSON promo video
This is how I made my latest Summon The JSON video:
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