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Stay on Target: How I Stopped Planning and Started Building a 20-Year-Old PHP Site
The hardest part of resurrecting a legacy project isn't the code. It's resisting the urge to rearchitect everything before you've gotten a single page to load.
Ground-Level: HDTV Magazine Revival — A 15-Week Build Log
I resurrected a dead website to stay sharp as an engineering manager — here's what 15 weeks of hands-on building actually looks like.
Leading in 4K: Why I Practice the Tech I Don't Touch at Work
Technical learning sticks when the subject matter has pull. Here's how I found a project that held my attention long enough to actually matter.
Under the Hood: How Interview ShAIne Actually Works
The RAG pipeline, embedding choices, similarity thresholds, and the missed queries feedback loop behind the AI version of me.
I Built an AI Version of Myself and It Didn't Know Me at All
Building a RAG-powered interview chatbot taught me that what the model doesn't know about you isn't a model problem. It's a you problem.
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