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The Second Framework Is Always Easier (Except for the Setup)
April 2026 I spent months searching for Go and Ruby roles in the Öresund region. The market had other ideas. On pivoting from Rails to Fastify/TypeScript mid-client-project, why the setup nearly broke me before I wrote a single route, and the moment I realised the framework was new but the thinking was not.
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March 2026 Journal entries from various points in my programming journey — some out of date, all honest.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.