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Funizy

Funizy is a travel planning app with a custom AI agent that gives super personalized trip recommendations to travelers. It's built to solve a simple problem: generic itinerary suggestions that feel like they could apply to anyone, anywhere. Funizy takes your location and preferences and uses AI to

I was interviewed by an AI and I’m never doing it again

I was interviewed by an AI and I’m never doing it again

A few days ago I got a message by a recruiter asking me to do an initial screening for a role. I’m not actively looking to change jobs right now but what got my interest was that they’re using an AI platform for the first stage of the

How corporations lead you to career stagnation

How do I progress in my career? That's something I've asked this myself a few times over the years. First, let's try to define what progress is. It's not immediately obvious what progress is and I don't think there'

How companies stagnate

How companies stagnate

I once had a manager who said something along the lines of 'The job of a good manager is to set up a process where a team doesn't depend on them'. The idea is that a manager should be able to go on holiday for two

The rise and fall of musical genres

The rise and fall of musical genres

I was watching videos from Black Sabbath's final concert - Back To The Beginning. It was an epic event with the biggest bands in metal and rock music - Metallica, Alice in Chains, Pantera and so on. Black Sabbath were the first to pioneer the heavy metal sound

Chord2Push

This is an app that I vibe-coded in a few hours. It allows you to quickly translate piano chords into Ableton Push chords and its various layout formats. Sometimes I want to play a song on the Push. People don't make YouTube tutorials for playing songs on the

BeatRater

As you may see in the other section of this website, I make music. One of the biggest struggles before releasing a song is wondering 'is it ready?'. Answer really is it never is truly done and a musician can tweak their song endlessly. However, it's

Rationality Tools

Rationality Tools

It seems to me that in public discourse around various political topics there's basically no nuance to how people make arguments. It's always black or white, pick a side and you get a 'starter pack' of opinions at the very extremes of any topic.

CatSummon

I had found a video with a meowing cat that claimed that the sound on the video would make your own cat come to you. It genuinely worked with my can and my friends' cats! So I thought why not make it into an app. A single button that

MealKrush

I wanted to lose weight and I was getting bored of just chicken with veggies for lunch. ChatGPT had just come out and I had the idea of having it generate persionalized lunch recipes that fit certain criteria like different foods that I like and my caloric intake. ChatGPT would

ZippySaaS

I was learning about lambda and Serverless functions on AWS so I had the idea of making a boilerplate project with all the basics you'd need to roll out a project and get coding business logic instead of setting up auth and Stripe integrations. I've had

What's good software design?

What's good software design?

I've been trying to come up with a definition of what a good software design or architecture is (here I'm kind of using the two words interchangeably). What are the characteristics of a good design versus a bad one?

Making software is not about code

Making software is not about code

It may sound counterintuitive to say that a software product is not about code. Sure, it’s the output of what software engineers do but there’s a much more important series of events that happen before that. One of the more fundamental components is communication.

What most companies get wrong about Agile?

What most companies get wrong about Agile?

Almost everyone building software has adopted some form of agile in the past decade. The concept of an agile workflow has even spilled into other departments within companies - devops, data engineering and sales all talk about it. Yet on software teams, people seem to be unhappy about their process.

GimmeMeme

GimmeMeme was an add-on for Slack. An extremely simple app that used the Slack and Reddit API. It allowed Slack users to type a command in any channel and get a random meme from one of the top meme subreddits. You could also specify a specific your favourite subreddit to