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Field notes.
A running archive of things I've built, broken, fixed, or learned along the way. Short reads, lessons, experiments, tools — all the work that doesn't fit on a portfolio page.
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[lesson]
Three months of debugging after AI "finished" SENU
AI wrote the whole thing in a week. Then I spent three months fixing the bugs it could not see.
#senu #ai-workflow #tauri #rust #desktop28 Apr 2026 -
[experiment]
I built a blog that wrote itself. Then I turned it off.
A cron job kicked an AI, which read current news, wrote a brief, and asked a newer AI to publish an article. Twice a day. Then it got boring.
#ai-workflow #automation #lessons23 Feb 2026 -
[note]
Tauri shipped me a 13MB terminal. Electron shipped me 150MB.
A short note on the bundle-size diff after rewriting SENU from Electron+React to Tauri 2 + Rust. The number matters more than I thought.
#tauri #electron #rust #senu #desktop #frontend22 Dec 2025 -
[lesson]
When SQLite is enough, and when it stops being enough
I spent a week migrating from SQLite to Postgres on a project that did not need it yet. Here is the list I wish I had read first.
#sqlite #postgres #databases #architecture03 Dec 2025 -
[tool]
Wyckoff VSA indicator for cTrader
One of the 15+ indicators I have published on the cTrader marketplace. Volume Spread Analysis with Wyckoff event labels. Still my best-seller.
#ctrader #csharp #trading #wyckoff23 Sep 2025 -
[experiment]
Half a year of prop firm challenges: what I learned about my own discipline
FTMO, BlueGuardian, a few smaller shops. I learned almost nothing about markets and almost everything about myself.
#trading #psychology #risk20 Jul 2025 -
[note]
Self-hosting on a $5 VPS, one year in
One Contabo VPS, a handful of projects, nginx + PHP 8.3 + Certbot. The real lesson: 90% of the work is the boring 10%.
#vps #nginx #infrastructure #self-hosting30 Jun 2025 -
[lesson]
AI-assisted is not AI-written. The difference is the debugging.
A short manifesto. Anyone who thinks shipping software is "just ask the model" has never debugged a production bug the model can't see.
#ai-workflow #engineering #design18 Apr 2025 -
[experiment]
I tried to make my Pine Script indicator beat my discretion. It didn't.
I coded my Keltner-Zones-with-Squeeze setup into a fully mechanical Pine indicator. Backtest looked great. Live trading underperformed my eye.
#pinescript #tradingview #trading #automation22 Mar 2025 -
[tool]
Pine Script archive: 50+ indicators, what survived
I have written more than 50 Pine scripts. Five or six survived as daily-use tools. The rest is a graveyard, and the graveyard taught me what survival looks like.
#pinescript #tradingview #trading #tools19 Feb 2025 -
[note]
On choosing Laravel + Filament for boring backends
My default stack for 90% of backends. Not because it is the best. Because boring is reliable, and an admin in an hour beats an admin in a week.
#laravel #filament #php #architecture #backend08 Jan 2025 -
[lesson]
Dreams are data. Six years of sleep journaling.
A more personal entry. Six years of dream notes. What it did for me as an engineer: trained an attention nobody asked me to train.
#consciousness #journaling #meta09 Dec 2024