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Turning a folder of projects into a developer story
What I learned writing my own READMEs, org profile, and portfolio — how to choose a static-site stack, structure a repo's front page, and quantify your impact honestly without overclaiming.
How I built this site: local-first, tracker-free, with Astro
The build journey of this very site — choosing Astro, picking paths over subdomains, pivoting from a blog to a full portfolio, auditing for telemetry, and a sneaky SVG encoding bug.
Bringing coverage and offline static analysis into the editor
Why I built an IDE extension that runs full static-analysis rules locally — no server round-trips — and the design decisions that made offline parity possible.
Building a test-flow visualizer for two IDEs
How a tool to untangle TestNG dependsOnMethods graphs grew into a cross-platform extension - and the decisions that kept it generic, fast, and shippable on top of a half-finished refactor.
Constraining a local LLM to valid JSON with GBNF grammars
Prompts ask a model to "return JSON". Grammars make it impossible to return anything else. How I used GBNF + constrained decoding to get reliable structured output on-device.
What shipping swagger-view taught me about local-first tools
A developer-journal entry on building a privacy-first Swagger/OpenAPI previewer — and why "no callbacks" turned out to be a feature, not a constraint.