The journal.
- 4 min readJul 27, 2026One app, all my focus in August: update #5
I didn't expect to write another update so soon, but here we are. It's Monday, July 27, and I'm freakin' hyped about this one. But it needs some context first,…
- 5 min readJul 26, 2026Hitting my weekly Claude limit for the first time. That wasn't the real problem.
I've been talking about Claude AI a lot on this blog lately. But this one's worth writing down properly, because it caught me off guard. Claude has been the big…
- 6 min readJul 25, 2026Yelling at Claude works, and caps lock is a debugging tool
For months now, I have been living inside Claude. Not using it. Living in it. I build things without a traditional engineering background, which means an AI mod…
- 3 min readJul 24, 2026Four blogs, one plan: update #4
I've always loved writing. Not because my skills are PhD material, or dressed up with fancy words to sound smarter, but after a genuinely good conversation with…
- 6 min readJul 22, 2026Chinese short dramas are so cringe that they’re so good
I live in Taiwan, which technically means I've been "about to start learning Chinese" for several years now. That whole saga lives on my other journal, the one…
- 5 min readJul 21, 2026I build software like a toddler learning to walk
I know almost nothing about coding. My high school specialized in IT-Economics, and somehow I still walked out unable to write a single working line of code. Wh…
- 4 min readJul 18, 2026My habits changed and so did my health
The last couple of years haven't been great, health-wise. Before that, my other half had a miscarriage and years of health issues, which forced me into decision…
- 4 min readJul 17, 2026Less coding, more designing: Update #3
This week I did something different. As much as I love vibe coding my way through things these past few months, I wanted to slow down and work on layouts and re…
- 5 min readJul 16, 2026Claude AI Is both my greatest tool and my biggest frustration
I never understood why people on Reddit obsess over comparing one AI model to another. Every week, some competitor drops an update, a new feature, an improved l…