Projects
Assessing and Breaking Plateaus in Training – S.T.A.R.T. Framework and App Tracker
Created a simple web app to track BJJ training progress to analyze and break plateaus
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Stop Asking, Start Delegating: Meet the Rise of Agentic AI
You get a big ask: plan a week‑long family reunion for 15 people, including flights, a rental house, and a daily activity schedule. You can already see the tabs multiplying. Now imagine handing the entire Read more
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Building a Serverless Image Processor with AI Assistance – Part 6 of 6 – The Takeaways
Part 6: Final Features and Key Takeaways After a challenging but rewarding debugging journey, we finally had a stable, working application. The core features were in place, and the connection between the frontend and our Read more
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Building a Serverless Image Processor with AI Assistance – Part 5 of 6 – The Debugging Gauntlet
Part 5: The Debugging Gauntlet – When AI Assistants (and Humans) Make Mistakes This is the most important part of our story. No project, especially one involving new technologies, works perfectly on the first try. Read more
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Building a Serverless Image Processor with AI Assistance – Part 4 of 6 – The Build
Part 4: The Build – Pair Programming with an AI With our Google Cloud infrastructure ready and our Product Requirements Document (PRD) in hand, it’s time to start building. This is where the power of Read more
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Building a Serverless Image Processor with AI Assistance – Part 3 of 6 – The Foundation
Part 3: Laying the Foundation – A Step-by-Step Guide to GCP Setup With our Product Requirements Document (PRD) as our guide, it’s time to move from planning to practice. Before we can write or deploy Read more
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Building a Serverless Image Processor with AI Assistance – Part 2 of 6 – The Blueprint
Part 2: From Idea to Blueprint – Why the PRD is Your Most Important Prompt In any development project, the temptation to jump straight into coding is strong. You have an idea, you’re excited, and Read more
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Building a Serverless Image Processor with AI Assistance – Part 1 of 6 – The Plan
I’m a bit bored nursing an injury, so might as well do something productive for a few days. Why 6-Part? Well, it’s good for traffic, clicks, and sessions, but really, why not? I reckon it’d Read more
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Gahd I Used to Hate LinkedIn But GenAI Made It Worse!
It’s no secret, I’ve made this proclamation for years. LinkedIn is arguably the most toxic social media on the internet, more cringey than weird dances, pointing in the air, or even selling Temu garbage. It’s Read more
Opinions
The Unsinkable Ship: Navigating the Storm of an Unplanned Retirement
There is a quiet, tectonic shift happening in the world of work, a tremor just beneath the surface that many of us in our fifties are beginning to feel. It isn’t a sudden earthquake, but Read more
Opinions
How My Rescue Cat Taught Me About Stoicism and Stress Survival
In the relentless, humid hum of Singapore, a city-state that rewards frantic motion and punishes pause, I had become a master of the urgent. At nearly fifty, my life was a carefully constructed edifice of Read more
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Your Life is Getting More Expensive to Feed the AI Beast
Let me be perfectly clear from the start, I love technology. I believe in its power to solve big problems and make our lives better. I’ve been a tech nerd since I was a kid, Read more
Business
Open Letter to Toxic Workplace Culture Incubators
My friends, I’m writing to you today not as a consultant or a guru, but as a peer, heck even a virtual friend. Someone who has sat in the same meetings, felt the same pressures, Read more
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I Want My Internet Back!
It was 1995, I flick the power switch of my Compaq Presario desktop in my dorm room, the first time I heard that screeching modem tone just weeks before our campus upgraded to T1 connections. Read more
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How Big Tech’s AI “Neutrality” Enables Ethical Disasters: 3 Cautionary Tales for Business Leaders
AI is often marketed as an impartial, efficiency-boosting tool, but the reality is messier. As highlighted in videos like “How AI Decisions Go Rogue”, “The Hidden Biases in AI”, and “When Automation Goes Wrong”, AI systems don’t operate Read more