I Finally Rebuilt My Portfolio — And Made It Talk BackThere's a particular kind of shame that lives rent-free in an engineer's head. Not the shame of a failed deployment, or a botched database migration — those are acute, survivable. I'm talking about thMay 11, 2026·5 min read·18
Big Update: CANT.study Now Supports YouTube Videos!When we launched CANT.study, our goal was simple: to help students capture and understand spoken content—lectures, audio notes, and recordings, more efficiently. Today, we’re excited to announce a major step forward in that mission. CANT.study now su...May 26, 2025·2 min read·4
Introducing “Build Night!” — Kicking Off Our Public Development SeriesMarching straight from launch week’s excitement, I’m thrilled to announce Build Night!, a new blog-series where you can follow—and take part in—every step of building our next-gen note-taking platform. Whether you’re a student, developer, or GenAI en...May 13, 2025·3 min read·7
From Project to Product: How cant.study → wehelpyou.study Transforms Student Note‑Taking and Meetings with Open‑Source LLMsFor three semesters I worked as an on‑campus student note‑taker, clocking in at 8 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. While the paycheck helped, the routine exposed a deeper accessibility gap: many courses never secure a note‑taker, leaving NTI...May 7, 2025·3 min read·49
Building the Future of UAP Truth: My Experience at the SF UAP HackathonIn mid‑April 2025, I joined the inaugural SF UAP Hackathon aboard the USS Hornet in Alameda, California—a convergence of engineers, data scientists, and enthusiasts all driven to demystify Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Over the weekend, our team imm...Apr 21, 2025·4 min read·32
Beyond Manual Thought: A Journey into Tool-Assisted AI ReasoningNot long ago, I shared a piece on how technical solutions evolve—think of it as the journey beyond REST in microservices. In that same spirit, the way AI handles computation has also undergone a transformation. Sometimes these models compute huge num...Mar 10, 2025·7 min read·51
Beyond REST: A Journey into the World of gRPC and Asynchronous MessagingThere was a time when REST was the defacto standard of our microservices landscape—a familiar language that all our services spoke fluently. In the early days, REST’s straightforward HTTP verbs and JSON payloads brought us together in a harmonious co...Feb 5, 2025·4 min read·57
