How a simple question while playing Catan - could I generate balanced boards automatically? - became a production-grade generator, built over a weekend using an AI vibe-coding workflow with Claude Code.

A hands-on Dockerized backend platform with a production-ready microservices architecture - two independent Express/MongoDB services behind an Nginx reverse proxy, with clear service boundaries, isolated networks, and environment parity from development to deployment.

A tiny GPU monitoring web app built with Django and gpustat that shows real-time GPU usage, memory, and active processes per user - handy in shared research labs and clusters.

How to compute the nth Fibonacci number efficiently using tail recursion in Standard ML and Python - reducing exponential time complexity to linear and stack space from linear to constant.

How I went from fearing Vim to making it my daily driver for a full year, plus a practical guide to the modes, the key commands, customization, and the gotchas that trip up every newcomer.