I picked one problem I understood cold, image to ASCII art, and rebuilt it across Flask, Vite, a video version, React Native, and a CLI. When the algorithm is boring and known, the stack is the teacher.
I built a personal relationship knowledge graph from my own iMessage history by wiring together two off-the-shelf MCP servers. The novelty isn't a server I wrote, it's the combination.
I did my own business taxes by hand, realized the whole thing was mechanical, and built a tool for it. The catch: the language model orchestrates, but a deterministic Python engine owns every number.
I'm on a mission to finish every project I've started, but I have dozens active at once and couldn't hold them in my head. So I built a command center that derives status from git activity, flags work before it rots, and hands tasks to an agent.
AWS Kendra has an ~$810/month floor and its crawler kept getting blocked, so I built a drop-in replacement that runs as a scheduled Fargate task and costs about $2 a month.
My first GitHub project was a script that texted me when my college admission decision posted. Every project since has come from the same instinct: if something annoys me or I want to learn it, I build it, and I take it past the prototype to something real.
At a three-day externship in 2023 I built a collaborative whiteboard overnight, and it helped land me my job at Deloitte. I finally shipped it for real. The story of doing that says more about my workflow than any token count ever could.
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