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Software

Code, architecture, APIs, data models, and the decisions behind what I build.

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Blog Jul 26, 20263 min Beginner

Building this blog

Why this journal is a folder of markdown files and one build script, with no framework, no database and no dependencies.

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Blog Oct 24, 20263 min Intermediate

Setting up Decap CMS, and the four things that broke

Adding a graphical editor to the Blog meant no new database and no format migration, since Decap just commits to the same markdown files. Getting GitHub, Caddy and Docker to actually agree with each other took four separate fixes.

Sep 2, 20265 min Beginner

Building a personal IT knowledge base that outlives the chat window

I kept solving IT problems and forgetting how. The fix was a separate Markdown repository that holds my own troubleshooting history, with a rule that the AI writes the notes but never becomes the memory.