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Thoughts on building software, shipping products, and the solo dev life.
Why I enrolled at NJIT for graduate cybersecurity study while running MaverickBytes solo, and what formal coursework adds that self-teaching could not.
Every performance number in my READMEs is backed by committed benchmark output tagged with the device and the commit that produced it.
Voice Journal cannot send your data anywhere because the Android platform will not let it, and that guarantee shaped every technical decision in the app.
How I tore every cloud dependency out of my AI companion and rebuilt it on a fully local stack of faster-whisper, Ollama, ChatterBox, and ChromaDB.
A complete guide to building a DnD 5e Obsidian vault: folder structure, session prep workflow, and the plugins that make it all work.
The story behind MaverickBytes: why I built it, the tech decisions I made, and what I learned shipping a developer portfolio as a product.
After two years as a QA Analyst in healthcare tech, I made the leap to full-stack development. Here's why, and why I don't regret keeping one foot in QA.
What I learned building Testimonial Collector from scratch: the wins, the mistakes, and the things nobody tells you about shipping a SaaS product alone.