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Swift Student Challenge — I Didn't Make It
My SSC submission wasn't selected. Here's what I think went wrong, and what I'll do differently next time.
#Swift#Reflection#CompetitionRead more →The First Time Someone Paid for My Code
What freelancing taught me about validation, blind spots, and why communication is engineering.
#Freelancing#Growth#ReflectionRead more →Building a Multi-Language Version Manager from Scratch
Why I got tired of nvm, rustup, pyenv all fighting over my home directory — and decided to build Vex.
#Rust#DevTools#Open SourceRead more →The Illusion of Certainty
After heavy use of AI coding assistants during development, I went digging into why they fail — and what I found changed how I work with them.
#AI#Opinion#ProgrammingRead more →USACO: From Bronze to Platinum
How specific problems changed the way I think — binary search under adversarial conditions, decomposing coupled systems, and turning exponential problems into linear ones.
#Competition#Programming#AlgorithmsRead more →Echoes of '25 and the Dawn of '26
Reflections on 2025 and setting the stage for a more impactful 2026.
#Reflection#PersonalRead more →Building NightGuard: The Irony of Sleep
How staying up late for 3 months helped me build an app to fix my sleep.
#DevLog#SwiftUI#ProductRead more →Reflections: Vivo Developer Conference 2025
Witnessing the intersection of BlueLM AI and humanistic technology.
#Event#AI#AccessibilityRead more →