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Writing

Essays and notes on AI/ML, networks, and building things — pulled live from Substack and Medium.

Substack

Real-Time Taste Matching at Scale

What Spotify and Pinterest actually store about you — and why the database choice is the algorithm

Jul 14, 2026Read →
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Meet Dorky: I Built a Chrome Extension That Reads Anything with an AI Voice (And You Can Too)

How I went from tutorial inspiration to shipping a real product in one afternoon

Jan 04, 2026Read →
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Where the Tea App Devs Messed Up (And Why It Matters)

Imagine waking up to a nightmare: your most private photos — government IDs, selfies, even intimate messages — have been exposed online for anyone to see. This is exactly what h…

Aug 04, 2025Read →
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🚀 Forget What You Know About pip — This Tool Replaces It All

-- chatGPT helped me here

Jul 14, 2025Read →
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