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# Figuring Things Out
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Personal growth experiments and life lessons learned the hard way. The messy process of becoming a slightly better human.
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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…
💻 building-things 🤖 playing-with-ai
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 💻 building-things
How I Procrastinated my way into my website redesign
Or: How strategic procrastination became the most valuable part of my entire redesign process I was bored with macapinlac.com’s design. Not just mildly dissatisfied — properly bored. You know that fee…
🤖 playing-with-ai
Planning a Road Trip from Vancouver to Edmonton in a Tesla Model Y
Our family road trips from Vancouver, BC to Edmonton, AB used to be a no-brainer—12 hours of driving, two gas stops, and a whole lot of questionable snacks. But after years of loyal service, our Toyot…
🚗 travelling
Dealing with some setbacks
Ignore me just trying to get back into shape. Wait, round is a shape right? Not gonna lie. The last two years has not been good for my body. Let me see if I can quickly catch you up on my non-exercise…
Getting caught up
Completely admitting that I am procrastinating this evening. It was a pretty long day at work and there was a big need to unwind. Didn’t feel like reading any of my books tonight. To occupy the time,…
Vacation in our own back yard
I always wonder how many people have actually been a tourist in their own backyard. I mean, buy a guidebook learn weird obscure facts, see the sights in your own city. We are Vancouver, British Columb…
🚗 travelling
Goodbye my friend
It has been a long time since we’ve seen each other. The last time was at an airport where you worked a long while ago. I thought about you recently a month ago, over the holidays. It is hard to belie…
Some thoughts on books
Here is a stream of conciousness / opinions / reviews on the books that I’ve read in 2017. A recurring goal of mine has been to read more. This year I’ve been trying to keep this particular goal top o…
📧 random-thoughts
2017 notes to myself
Nice to meet you 2017! Glad to see that you’ve made it here safely. I’m trying to be more honest and open so let me tell you about a few things that I wanted te put on the burner this year and why. Al…