Technical notes, project documentation, and lessons learned across software, DIY, writing, and more.
Stop thinking about function pointers. Start thinking about bells and notifications. A restaurant analogy that makes C# events actually make sense.
Can I text an AI instead of opening another app? Turns out yes—and it validates a compelling business model. Here's how I built SMS-to-custom-LLM in ~40 lines of code.
How I spent days debugging a silent Discord bot, only to discover the application itself was corrupted—and Discord gave zero indication anything was wrong.
No database, no CMS, no admin panel. Just Markdown files, a JSON registry, and a thin C# service. Here's exactly how this blog turns plain text into the page you're reading.
Your translations work, but users have to dig through browser settings to change languages. Let's build a dropdown that remembers their choice with cookies.
I built a Discord bot to summarize hundreds of messages using OpenAI - then discovered that all Discord bots run as a single instance serving every server. Here's the journey.
Adding invisible bot protection to a contact form with Google reCAPTCHA v3 and a honeypot field - no puzzles, no friction, no spam.