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[5]Notes on what I'm learning — engineering craft, the tools I build with, and the occasional thing I got wrong.
Jev doesn't generate text, so I went looking for a job in my own app it could do
A new AI provider whose model only scores, never writes. Finding a use for it, and working out what a second provider actually costs you, took longer.
I let my job tracker interview me, and it marked me down for running out of time
I added a spoken interview simulator to my job tracker and then rehearsed with it. Talking at my own laptop is stressful and faintly ridiculous, and it still told me things I hadn't noticed.
I built a job tracker I wanted but didn't need
A weekend idea about tracking job applications turned into a multi-tenant app built entirely with Claude Code. Here's what I decided, what I'd do differently, and where it might go.
Redundancy, momentum, and building in public
How I am turning an unexpected career reset into a focused six-month product and job-search sprint.
Learning C# by building my portfolio in public
I started a throwaway CRUD app to learn C#. It turned into the portfolio site you're reading this on. Here's what the detour actually taught me.