Building
Sixteen Workflows, One Small ServerNote
I spent the summer automating my own operation before automating anyone else's. Sixteen workflows, a €8 box, a 0.9% failure rate — and one rule that turned out to matt...
Writing Past the Free TierDispatch
Buttondown's free plan blocks the two features that matter most for a newsletter — automation and custom CSS. About two hundred lines of Python in the publish workflow...
The Language That Built the World's Databases: Clipper, ASCII Art, and the Golden Age of DOS
Before the web, before Windows, before most people had ever touched a computer — there was a language called Clipper, a compiler that turned dBASE code into executable...
Building a Family Recipe BookNote
Building a 10,000-Book Library from ScratchNote
I built a curated digital library of 10,001 books spanning serious literature, science fiction, detective fiction, science, and a dozen other genres — with a REST API,...
Oil vs Stock: Seeing the Relationship Between Oil and EquitiesNote
I built a dashboard that overlays crude oil prices with any stock ticker — because sometimes the best way to understand a relationship is to just look at it.
Where in the World is Naren – Building An Interactive Travel MapNote
Building an interactive travel map with Leaflet.js to showcase every place I have visited or lived in around the world.
Rebuilding a personal siteNote
After twenty-five years and multiple false starts, finally rebuilding a personal site the right way with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.