Writing
Mostly about the seam between finance and software — what carries over, what does not, and what I got wrong on the way.
Building a bookshelf: borrowing the idea, not the code
I found a beautiful interactive bookshelf on GitHub and rebuilt it for my own site. Almost every place the two diverge is a place where the original's assumptions did not survive my data — twenty curated books became seventy-eight, and hand-tuned styling became something extracted from the covers themselves.
The bugs only a real phone will tell you about
Five bugs from a month of building Chalkbook, every one invisible in the code and obvious within minutes of running it on my own phone. A sequel on what "test on the device" actually means.
Building Chalkbook: a climbing journal I actually use
I don't really write code. Over six weeks I directed an AI to build the iOS training app I wanted, and learned that taste and judgement were the scarce parts — the typing was cheap.
How I build software without an engineering background
The workflow I use with AI — a spec, a conventions file, and a handoff note — and why deciding what the model may not do turned out to matter more than describing what it should.