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# Building Things

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Creating, breaking, and occasionally fixing technology. Code that compiles on the third try and hardware held together with hope.

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2026-05-30
The redesign series I never finished (and the one I'm doing instead)
If you’re keeping score, you would’ve noticed that we never finished the Building a Website with AI: A Website Redesign Experiment series. It contained four posts that I had high hopes for but never s…
🌱 figuring-things-out 🤖 playing-with-ai
4 min
2025-08-01
AI and the Art of Overcomplicating Simple Things
While the industry debates whether AI will replace designers (most likely not) and developers embrace “vibe coding,” I was learning a different lesson: the problem isn’t whether AI can do the work—it’…
🤖 playing-with-ai 🌱 figuring-things-out
4 min
2024-04-07
This is my playground! Damnit!
I only post on this site once in a blue moon (according to super scientific research a max of 3 times a year) when I do post, it is usually a result of: Heavy procrastination A new toy, AND heavy proc…
2 min
2021-08-26
Simplification
You know when your smart phone has that ‘unread’ notification badge on an App? That really irritates me! If you have more than 3 unread messages, don’t show me your phone. I might explode with anxiety…
4 min
2017-09-10
Keyboard shortcuts, payloads, and some Arduino learning
I’ve been a software guy all my life. I love building software systems. Things that store data in large databases, you login, and the system does something. I’ve never really understood hardware. So w…
4 min
2016-01-13
The website exists again! Hello there old friend.
This blog has gone through some schizophrenic episodes throughout the years. Looking back, there were a bunch of messed up times where maintaining this web space caused a tonne of anxiety. I didn’t kn…
4 min