Notes on building, AI, and procurement.
Long-form thoughts on what I'm working on, what I learned the hard way, and what I'd do differently next time.
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Building GardenPin: a weekend garden-planning app
How I went from sketches on a napkin to a working garden planning app in 48 hours — and why I picked Next.js, SQLite and a hand-rolled tile map over the obvious React Native + Mapbox stack.
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Why I built a local health analyzer instead of paying for an API
A €30/month OpenAI bill for a side project that occasionally analyzed my running data felt absurd. Here's how I replaced it with a local Ollama model and got better results.
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