Blog
Notes on building things, understanding machines, and learning in public.
Posts
Under the Hood: Notes from Someone Who Needed to Know Why
March 2026 Journal entries from various points in my programming journey — some out of date, all honest. On learning C to understand Ruby, building for real clients, TDD, and what happens when you stop shifting between languages and start seeking depth instead.
How I Got Past the "Works on My Machine" Problem
January 2025 From debugging PowerShell scripts across continents to one-command deployment with containers. Why I chose Podman over Docker, and how containerization saved my friend from stealing my WoW gold.
From "I Can't Code" to Building Distributed Systems
January 2025 How CS50 taught me what a €3000 bootcamp couldn't. The journey from failed bootcamp student to building production-ready P2P systems — and what I learned about learning along the way.