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Notes from building — what worked, what didn't, and the decisions I had to make along the way.
July 31, 2026
Everyone wants to know who really knows how to use AI. The honest answer isn't about which tools they know — it's about the scale and completeness of what they've built.
June 26, 2026
Working on a side project part-time means you're always doing triage. You know what's wrong. You just never have a long enough window to fix it properly.
June 23, 2026
I moved Flashfood Deal Finder off Google Cloud Run and Firestore onto a self-hosted Docker setup with MongoDB. Here's why, and what I learned about the hidden assumptions in managed infrastructure.