My daily thoughts, reflections, ideas

Project Idea: Local Virtual Community Board — 2025-08-04

I've been thinking about building a local virtual community board where people can post about events, services, and resources in their area. The idea is to mimic the posters on telephone poles and bul...

Prompt Engineering Udemy Course Reflections — 2025-08-01

I recently completed a Udemy course on prompt engineering, which was a fascinating dive into how to effectively communicate with AI models. The course covered various techniques for crafting prompts t...

React Server Components — 2025-07-22

React Server Components are a relatively newer feature. They allow you to run React components on the server, which can improve performance and reduce the amount of JavaScript sent to the client. Beca...

Playing with Next.js — 2025-07-15

To learn the basics of Next.js, I've been writing my simple cv site using the framework, as well as migrating a personal project. Deploying with vercel could not have been easier, and I love the built...

Adventures in Dynmaic Programming — 2025-07-01

Focused this week on solving problems using dynamic programming techniques. While the straight forward solutions have come more easily, I still find myself a bit at sea when solving problems involving...

Implementing authentication on a personal project — 2025-06-15

After starting out implementing Auth0 with okta, I found myself frustrated with the documentation available on the site and getting suck early in the process. After more reading on options available, ...