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Porting a Game from Unity to Godot as a Solo Dev: An Honest Retrospective
I shipped my first commercial game, a small puzzle platformer called Latch, in early 2024 after building it in Unity over two years. It...
Setting Up a Pi-hole for My Family: The Unexpected Devices It Broke (and Fixed)
I set up a Pi-hole on a quiet Saturday morning, expecting to feel like a hero. My family had been complaining about the ads...
I Relearned C After 10 Years of Python: Where My Modern Brain Stumbled
I wrote my first C program in college, a command line calculator that barely handled division. For years after, I never touched it again....
I Let AI Write My Pull Requests for a Week: Here’s What My Team Said
I have always treated pull request descriptions as a necessary chore. You write the code, you test it, and then you stare at the...
Living with a Foldable Phone as My Only Device for 90 Days: The Unfiltered Truth
I traded my laptop, tablet, and old phone for a single foldable device. For 90 days, a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 was my...
My 7-Day Digital Minimalism Challenge: Deleting Social Media from My Phone and Coding the Replacement Tool
I was checking Instagram while waiting for a build to finish. The build finished, I didn't notice, and I kept scrolling. Fifteen minutes vanished...
I Switched from Chrome to Firefox as a Developer for 30 Days: These Are the DevTools I Missed
I used Chrome for everything since its second year of existence. The developer tools felt like home. I knew the keyboard shortcuts, the little...
How I Set Up a Fully Offline AI Chatbot on My Laptop and What It Can Actually Do
I spend a lot of time in places with bad internet. Coffee shops where the Wi-Fi buckles under load, trains snaking through rural countryside,...
I Tracked Every Tech Subscription I Paid in 2026 and Cut 40%: Here’s the Data
In January 2026, I opened my bank statement and felt a familiar, low-grade nausea. There were charges I recognized and a handful I didn't....
Building a Raspberry Pi Home Server on a $75 Budget: A Step-by-Step Diary
I had been meaning to set up a proper home server for over a year. I wanted something that could run a few lightweight...
