journal.

build notes and product essays from the projects i keep shipping: student tools, AI research demos, developer utilities, and small internet products.

2026-02-12 / 7 min

PDFSpacer and the value of boring tools

A small PDF utility became a useful reminder that student workflows are full of invisible friction.

Product / PDFs / Student Tools

2026-01-30 / 8 min

Notes from building an AI writing product where the hard part is preserving the writer's intent.

AI / Writing / Product

2026-01-18 / 9 min

What changed when an AI assistant had to live in hardware instead of a browser tab.

AI / Hardware / Hackathon

2025-12-21 / 7 min

How two small extensions clarified what developers actually want from prompt automation.

Developer Tools / Cursor / Extensions

2025-11-15 / 8 min

Turning LLM caching experiments into something readable, testable, and shareable.

Research / LLMs / Hugging Face

2025-10-26 / 8 min

What an OCT scan LLM experiment taught me about boundaries, uncertainty, and interface language.

Research / Medical AI / LLMs

2025-09-19 / 7 min

Building one schema across Polymarket, Kalshi, and Manifold exposed the hidden work in data products.

Data Engineering / Markets / AI Agents

2025-08-08 / 8 min

The collectible resale project that connected sentiment analysis, market timing, and real revenue.

AI / Markets / Entrepreneurship

2025-07-11 / 7 min

A creator newsletter tool taught me that summarization is mostly about deciding what deserves attention.

AI / Creators / Summarization

2025-06-02 / 8 min

The mental health chatbot that won a science fair also taught me where AI products must be careful.

AI / Mental Health / Students

2025-05-17 / 8 min

Dating software is a reminder that AI product design has to account for vulnerability, not only matching logic.

AI / Social Products / UX