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Jun 14, 2026·7 min read

The Highlight Reel Nobody Asked For: Why Sharing Less Might Be Living More

We curate our lives on social media, sharing only the best angles of ourselves. In doing so, we accidentally become strangers to each other.

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Jun 14, 2026·13 min read

Your Gut Is Running the Show - And It's Time You Knew

Millions of bacteria live inside you. Some are helping you. Some are literally hijacking your brain to make you eat sugar. Here's the wild science of your gut, and how India already cracked the code centuries ago.

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Jun 10, 2026·10 min read

Stop Reaching for Antibiotics: Your Body Already Has a Better System

As an engineer, I started looking at immunity the way I look at software: a self-healing system that gets better with stress, unless you keep overriding it.

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Jun 9, 2026·4 min read

The Pixel-Perfect Eye: The Art and Science of Design QA

Ever notice a 1px misalignment, a logo with a stray color, or a font weight that feels slightly off? That is Design QA. Here is why visual precision is a superpower and how we can train it.

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Jun 9, 2026·5 min read

Preserving the Leaves of Words: Classical Poetry, Cognitive Relativity, and the Digital Garden

A deep dive into the historical roots of the Japanese word 'Kotonoha' (言の葉), the spiritual power of 'Kotodama' (言霊), cognitive science's Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and modern efforts to preserve linguistic diversity.

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Jun 9, 2026·4 min read

How to Set Up a Custom Domain Email for Free

Stop paying monthly fees for Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. How to combine Cloudflare Email Routing and Resend to send and receive custom domain emails for $0.

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Jun 9, 2026·3 min read

Hosting a Server on a Mobile Hotspot

My classmates often say you need high-speed home fiber to host servers. Here is how I built and exposed my own local server using just a mobile hotspot and Cloudflare Tunnels.

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Jun 8, 2026·1 min read

Hello World: Why I Started This Blog

Every developer blog starts somewhere. Here's mine, and what I plan to write about.

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Jun 8, 2026·3 min read

Random Thoughts on the Mac Mini Craze

Everyone suddenly wants a Mac Mini. I tried to figure out why, and whether I need one too.

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Jun 8, 2026·3 min read

I've Been Living in Claude Lately

Not a benchmark post. Just what it's actually like to use Claude as a daily dev tool.

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