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Notes from the build

Development notes, design decisions, experiments, and lessons from the projects I’m building.

Articles

AI Engineering: Designing Reliable Human–AI Development Workflows

How I evolved from conversational prompting into a specification-driven workflow for planning, implementing, validating, and debugging software with AI.

September 25, 202614 min read

AI EngineeringPrompt EngineeringCursorQA

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TaskFlow

Rebuilding TaskFlow in Angular

How I rebuilt TaskFlow as a second Angular client against the same APIs, to learn the framework before a full application.

September 2, 20265 min read

TaskFlowAngularNext.jsSupabase

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NovaTech

Taking NovaTech to AWS

How a contact form grew from a synchronous HubSpot handler into a durable AWS inquiry workflow.

August 29, 20265 min read

NovaTechAWSNext.jsStep Functions

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Event Horizon

Taking Event Horizon to AWS

How I turned a reservation demo into a Ticketmaster ingestion pipeline without moving bookings off PostgreSQL.

August 26, 20263 min read

Event HorizonAWSNext.jsDynamoDB

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StarLenzActive development

Building StarLenz: From a Graphic Design Concept to an Interactive Web Experience

How a graphic design concept became an interactive astronomy experience.

August 18, 202610 min read

StarLenzFrontend DevelopmentUI/UXNext.js

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