Blog &
Devlog.

Full walkthrough of the v2 build — decisions, tradeoffs, and the deployment pipeline that actually worked.

Before I moved everything to Cloudflare Pages, this was my deploy pipeline. It worked well — here's how it was set up.

Not magic, not a replacement. But a learnable tool that changes how you actually work — here's how it changed mine.

Our capstone project — a travel itinerary app built with React, Node, Express, and PostgreSQL, shipped in two weeks.

Down a rabbit hole with SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI — turns out getting a sender avatar on Gmail is more involved than you'd expect.

Coming back to Jekyll after a few months away, hit a Digest::SHA2 LoadError that nothing on Stack Overflow could fix — until I just nuked and reinstalled Ruby.

Hunting down why my Jekyll site was showing blank tiles — the culprit turned out to be a subtle logic bug in the theme's conditional block.

A Jekyll gotcha that cost me hours — JEKYLL_ENV=production needs to come before bundle exec or your absolute URLs will all render as localhost.

First post on my new site — covering the tools and stack behind it, from Jekyll and Ruby to favicon generators and color palettes.