blog

write-ups on the side projects i've built.

Jul 16, 2026
Building Career OS: a local-first desktop app for your career
How I built a local-first Tauri desktop app for tracking work and career — talking to SQLite from React, read-only JIRA/GitHub integrations that keep tokens in the OS keychain, and signed auto-updates.
TauriRustReactTypeScriptSQLite
Jun 22, 2026
Building Sippy Scout: a Chicago happy-hour map
How I built a Chicago happy-hour discovery app — the data pipeline, the architecture decisions that keep it fast, and lessons from shipping solo.
Next.jsTypeScriptAppwriteMapboxAuth.js