Autism as a catalyst
This is the twelfth post in my autism awareness month series. Over the past few weeks, I've described a lot of different things: a brain that gathers …
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The most important feature in our AI journaling app is the one where the AI shuts up. Day 7 of 30. 🌿
Day 7 of building Evengood — a 60-second end-of-day reflection app — in public on the Build with MeDo hackathon . Today I shipped the feature I'm most…
The AI Identity Crisis: Feeling Like a Fraud in a World of One-Click Results
Have you ever used a Generative AI tool to finish a task in five minutes that once required five hours of deep, agonizing focus? As you watch the resu…
Refactoring My Life: How I Escaped a Broken Environment to Find the Terminal
Some say code is a sanctuary for programmers. For me, that isn't a metaphor—it was my survival protocol for the first 18 years of my life. 1. Namespac…
I built an app to help myself end the day without spiraling. Day 4 of 30. 🌿
11:47 PM. Again. I was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, running the day on loop. The meeting I should’ve pushed back on. The message I left on re…
Autism and the "genius" effect
This is the tenth post in my autism awareness month series. When people think of autism, they often think of Rain Man or Sheldon Cooper. On one end, t…
A Team Member Asked for a Short Break. Then a Much Longer One. Here’s What We Did.
The short break was supposed to fix it. He came to us saying he was dealing with health issues (screen fatigue), the kind that builds up quietly when …
The Difference Between Burnout and Being Tired
Tiredness goes away after a good night's sleep. Burnout doesn't. Here's how to tell them apart — and why getting it wrong costs you months. Most engin…
My first blog post - 2026/04/16
(Logic Gates & Living Systems: Why I’m Moving to the Kernel) For a long time, I’ve felt like a high-speed machine running a custom, low-level ker…
AI Isn't a Crutch for Bad Developers ... It's the Unlock for Neurodivergent Ones
I was sitting at my desk at 10:47 PM on a Tuesday, Cursor open in front of me, when I finally understood what had been happening for months. My hands …
Why Streaks Work: The Psychology Behind Habit Streaks (And How to Use Them Without Burning Out)
You already know the feeling. You open Duolingo and see that number: 47, 112, 365. Something in your brain shifts. You were going to skip today, but n…
Transparency and challenges to myself
I have aptitude but lack focus. Even when trying to type this up I'm bouncing around to different ideas and topics. I am watching the same course vide…
Why 80% of Programmers Are Unhappy (It's Not the Money)
80% of professional developers aren't happy at work. That's from the 2024 Stack Overflow survey - 65,000 responses from working programmers worldwide.…
I Shipped My App to Production. An Hour Before Upload, I Realized I Was Wrong About My Own Paywall.
Two days ago I thought I was done. My Flutter journaling app, Eventide, was approved for Google Play production. The AAB was built. The store listing …
Your Last Coffee Isn’t the Problem; the First Three Are Still in Your System
A friend of mine was averaging 4 cups of coffee a day. Morning espresso at 7. Drip coffee at 10. Post-lunch lungo at 14:00. And an afternoon ristretto…
Quarterly Check In - 2026, Q1
Over the last quarter, I have found it more difficult to maintain the level of focus and consistency I expect from myself. There is no single cause. I…