Writing about things I've built, lessons learned, and the occasional deep dive into a technical problem.
A browser-native multiplayer Skip-Bo game with a pure-TypeScript engine, a from-scratch drag-and-drop stack, a raw-ws WebSocket server, and a single-box AWS deploy. Built deliberately without frameworks that would have abstracted the learning goals away.
A directory and review platform for Young Artist Programs in classical music, built in 21.5 hours. The system design work I did before writing a single component is the reason it came together so quickly.
I built an open-source, self-hosted text-to-speech reader with five swappable TTS engines, voice cloning, and offline PWA support. Here's what it took.
A four-step relocation wizard for Berlin with a German tax calculator accurate to <1€ margin of error, budget creator with AI-powered and rules-based analysis, and a visa checklist. Built in Angular and Kotlin, validated via OpenAPI to learn a new stack.
Week 4 of 10 projects in 10 weeks. Drop started as a hackathon project tied to expensive API credits. This week I rebuilt it as something anyone can actually run.
I built a full-stack job search tool that scrapes listings, scores them with AI, and tailors your resume on demand. Here's how it came together in seven days.
What we built at the AI Mini Hackathon Berlin: a two-voice podcast generator powered by Needle, Featherless, and ElevenLabs, shipped in 2.5 hours.
How I automated German real estate market monitoring for a client using Apify, n8n, Airtable, and Next.js, including an AI classifier that returns GO, NO-GO, or PRÜFEN.