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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. Why my portfolio has a robots.txt block list for AI crawlers that says allow2026-07-31
  2. Which AI tools I pay for, and what I run locally for free instead2026-07-31
  3. TradingView vs TrendSpider vs Stock Rover: which one a swing trader actually needs2026-07-31
  4. The student software stack: what is free, and the four things worth paying for2026-07-31
  5. The internship deadline panic was mostly fictional2026-07-31
  6. Koyfin vs Seeking Alpha vs Simply Wall St: what each one is actually for2026-07-31
  7. I wrote 30 guides in a week and here is what the schema markup taught me2026-07-31
  8. I ran a robustness test on my own trading strategy and it failed2026-07-31
  9. How to check a repo for secrets before you make it public2026-07-31
  10. Free-first, paid-second: the build stack a broke CS student actually needs2026-07-31
  11. Building a nonprofit before you are allowed to earn money2026-07-31
  12. Zero-dependency security scanner: secrets, OSV CVEs, IaC rules, git-history leaks, SBOM,...2026-07-29
  13. The hardest part of an internship search isn't the applications. It's that nobody tells you...2026-07-29
  14. I wrote a security scanner with zero dependencies, on purpose2026-07-29
  15. I spent months building trading strategies and then published the results that killed most...2026-07-29
  16. I spent a day making my portfolio readable by AI instead of by humans2026-07-29
  17. I skipped the App Store and shipped 3 offline PWAs instead. Here's what that actually costs you2026-07-29
  18. I shipped a brand across 30 pages, 3 apps, 3 book covers and a clothing line in one day,...2026-07-29
  19. I built three apps this week and put zero of them in the App Store2026-07-29
  20. I built a visa timeline planner because I got tired of being scared of a calendar2026-07-29
  21. How an undergrad with no connections gets into a research lab, specifically2026-07-29
  22. Built a position size calculator that refuses to let you round up. Free, no signup2026-07-29
  23. Correcting my SIGCSE 2026 record1970-01-01