Stories about development, technology, and startups
View Korean postsThe real problem with trichotillomania is that you don't notice your hand going up. An honest record of building Don't Touch — a webcam app that catches that moment — then using it, abandoning it, and getting one email that made it worth it.
I once bought a breathalyzer and made a deal with a friend: send a capture of every reading, or pay a fine. That clumsy contraption worked surprisingly well — so now I'm building it properly: a sobriety app where a failed check-in sends your stake to charity.
It started with a library book and ended with an AI pipeline that isn't allowed to miss a crisis signal. The question I've held onto longest while building HealFrame isn't technical — it's about legitimacy.
When my room-share rent in LA suddenly jumped, I didn't even know whether the increase was legal — so I just paid. A record of building RentRights, an open-source estimator for which rent-control rules likely apply to your address.
A roundup of the side projects I've poured out over the past few months, across wildly different domains — a short record of what I built and why.
When I decided to add a CMS to this blog, the real question was which kind. How I chose Keystatic on one criterion — the source of truth never leaves my repo — and what it still doesn't solve.
Three and a half months into life in the US, a record of a season spent receiving — and how reading The 48 Laws of Power made it clearer, not murkier, what kind of person I want to be.
My journey of learning English using AI tools and lessons from a real interview experience in the US.
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