Nine things I'd tell myself on day one (about tutorials, debugging, code reviews, and AI) from two years into learning to code, starting in 2024.
The real reasons developer portfolios don't land, and how a resume-to-portfolio generator with a frozen, schema-validated engine tries to close that trust gap.
Why a stronger model can't fix bad retrieval, and how treating PDFs, documents, and YouTube video as one shared pipeline changes what's actually hard to get right.
Why keeping playback state consistent across screens and interruptions is the actual hard problem in a music app, and everything else I ran into building and releasing Armonia, my own privacy-focused music app, on Google Play.
The difference between a contact metric and an outcome metric, and why a productivity workspace built around that difference looks nothing like a streak counter.
