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Notes from building in public as a computer science student: what shipped, what broke, and what the numbers actually said. Everything here is free to read and free to quote. RSS.

  1. TradingView vs TrendSpider vs Stock Rover: which one a swing trader actually needs2026-07-31
  2. Koyfin vs Seeking Alpha vs Simply Wall St: what each one is actually for2026-07-31
  3. Which AI tools I pay for, and what I run locally for free instead2026-07-31
  4. How to check a repo for secrets before you make it public2026-07-31
  5. The student software stack: what is free, and the four things worth paying for2026-07-31
  6. I built three apps this week and put zero of them in the App Store2026-07-29
  7. I shipped a brand across 30 pages, 3 apps, 3 book covers and a clothing line in one day2026-07-29
  8. I wrote a security scanner with zero dependencies, on purpose2026-07-29
  9. I spent a day making my portfolio readable by AI instead of by humans2026-07-29
  10. The hardest part of an internship search isn't the applications. It's that nobody tells you when it starts2026-07-29
  11. Two papers accepted to SIGCSE 2026. I'm an undergrad2026-07-29
  12. How an undergrad with no connections gets into a research lab, specifically2026-07-29
  13. I built a visa timeline planner because I got tired of being scared of a calendar2026-07-29
  14. I spent months building trading strategies and then published the results that killed most of them2026-07-29
  15. I skipped the App Store and shipped 3 offline PWAs instead. Here's what that actually costs you2026-07-29
  16. Zero-dependency security scanner: secrets, OSV CVEs, IaC rules, git-history leaks, SBOM2026-07-29
  17. Built a position size calculator that refuses to let you round up. Free, no signup2026-07-29