Technical articles, tutorials, and research notes. Random thoughts, adventures, and things I've learned along the way.
My Obsidian vault and Claude Code were living completely separate lives. So I connected them: 20 slash commands, auto session summaries, git-backed notes, live MCP. The whole thing runs on plain text and took an afternoon.
Read More →I tried to build a search tool that only returns exact quotes from uploaded text files. What followed was a crash course in free-tier limits, dependency hell, and knowing when to stop.
Read More →A practical look at what made me switch from traditional SQL workflows to Databricks: the good, the painful, and the game-changing.
Read More →Claude Code handles reactive work. Hermes runs autonomous missions with persistent memory. Gemini CLI does cheap parallel reads. The architecture is coherent. Here's where it's probably over-engineered.
Read More →How I turned 3,000+ pages of scanned reference books into 160 structured tutorial chapters for under $1. The solution: a multi-model editorial pipeline, local OCR extraction, and Claude Code as the orchestrator.
Read More →Lessons from building dashboards that stakeholders actually open more than once. Hint: less is more.
Read More →ETL sounds simple in theory. In practice, it's where data engineers earn their battle scars. Here's what I've learned.
Read More →From writing SQL to letting LLMs help me debug pipelines: how AI assistants have become part of my daily toolkit.
Read More →A beginner-friendly guide to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: the algorithms, the math, and how to actually build one.
Read More →Practical lessons from fine-tuning language models: when it works, when it doesn't, and what I'd do differently.
Read More →How I combined LIDAR, IMU, and camera data into a single coherent stream for a robotics project.
Read More →Understanding hardware makes you a better software engineer. Here's why, and how to get started without buying a single board.
Read More →Picking up a camera made me realise how much of what I call 'reality' is just the frame I chose to point at the world.
Read More →From Bangkok's night markets to Istanbul's kebab stalls — ranking the cities that fed my soul (and my stomach).
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