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Notes from the work18 entries / 2022–2026

Notes from
the work.

Things I’ve learned by building them. Engineering notes, project stories, and the occasional change of mind.

2026

Fine-Tuning XTTS v2 for More Natural Bible Narration

Technical / AI
8 min

2025

Domain Knowledge vs Code - Engineering a KP Astrological System

Less technical / Engineering
8 min

2024

Evolving Engineering: Everything Hard is Now Easy

Less technical / Engineering
6 min

Stateful Pitfalls in Next.js: Building Secure, Stateless API Requests with Axios

Technical / Web
6 min

Building Smart Recommendation Systems with Node.js and Google Gemini

Technical / AI
6 min

A Developer's Guide to Fluid Typography

Technical / Design
5 min

From Hater to Believer-How Cursor Changed My Approach to AI Coding

Less technical / AI
5 min

Challenges of Building Real-Time Collaborative Systems

Technical / Systems
6 min

Startuplist Africa - Overview, Mission and Impact

Less technical / Startups
6 min

My First Hiring Experience as a Technical Lead

Less technical / Career
2 min

Building Box.tools - One Platform, Every Tool You Need Online

Less technical / Product
6 min

Pixelator - A Figma Plugin That Turns Your Designs into Retro Vector Art

Less technical / Design
4 min

2023

Sending Data to Google Sheets Directly from Your Frontend

Technical / Web
2 min

Adding external script tag to a nuxt app

Technical / Web
2 min

Build A Blog With NextJs: A Practical Guide To JAMSTACK

Technical / Web
5 min

Deploying a contract to identical addresses on multiple networks

Technical / Blockchain
3 min

2022

A Practical Guide To Gasless Token Transfer

Technical / Blockchain
10 min

A Guide To Meta Transactions and Atomic Interactions

Technical / Blockchain
6 min