Thoughts on software engineering, systems thinking, and building things that work. Less about trends, more about what actually matters.
Termux, a Cloudflare tunnel, tmux, and Claude CLI. How I turned an Android phone into a real development environment connected to my home server.
Read more70 messages, $3,000 in my cart, and weeks of comparing QNAP vs Synology. Then I remembered I was already building a server.
No pitch deck. No customers. Just a hunch that voice AI shouldn't require stitching five services together. This is how Chans.ai started — in a car, singing along to a Japanese pop song with my kids.
I bought a 16-core server and a rack. Then I spent three days debugging why containers couldn't ping the internet. This is what homelabs actually teach you.
I wanted to give an LLM full access to my computer. Then I hit two walls I couldn't code around. One was technical. The other cost $3,000.
I was hired to build frontends. Then BugCrowd reports started landing in my inbox. What I learned about security when patching stopped working.
What happens when you stop renting GPUs and start feeling constraints. A story about Colab bills, CUDA crashes, and why friction is the best teacher.
Opportunities expire. What two missed chances taught me about timing, readiness, and learning systems the hard way.