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Giftbook landing page with a sample wedding ledger card showing received, given, and pending-envelope totals

Product engineering

A Family Gift Ledger That Lives in Your Own Google Sheet

A Bangla-language gift ledger for family events that keeps the record in the owner's own Google Sheet, works offline through a local IndexedDB copy, and lets relatives write to the same ledger by scanning a QR code.

Oct 9, 2026 · 4 minRead article

Product engineering

Designing a Local-First Family Tree People Can Read

A local-first family archive that combines a readable relationship graph with detailed profiles, timelines, recurring dates, version history, and complete backup restoration without requiring an account.

Oct 8, 2026 · 3 minRead article

b4joinacompany research interface for evaluating a company

Evidence systems

How I Modeled Company Research Without Producing a Fake Score

An evidence-labeled company research product that helps job seekers prepare better questions without turning anonymous reports into verdicts.

Aug 28, 2026 · 3 minRead article

PostCraft workspace showing the social content creation interface

Distributed systems

Scheduled Publishing Cannot Depend on an Open Browser Tab

A production-oriented publishing workspace that moves one idea through generation, brand controls, platform preview, and scheduled delivery.

Aug 28, 2026 · 2 minRead article

Thoughtline LinkedIn writing assistant side-panel interface

AI engineering

The LinkedIn Page Is Untrusted Input: Building a Safer AI Writing Assistant

Thoughtline became reliable when I treated page content, model providers, browser permissions, and local credentials as separate trust boundaries.

Aug 21, 2026 · 8 minRead article

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Product engineering

Oct 9, 2026 · 4 min read

A Family Gift Ledger That Lives in Your Own Google Sheet

Product engineering

Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read

Designing a Local-First Family Tree People Can Read

Air Traffic Control home screen with Saltmarsh Gateway, difficulty selection, flight controls, and desktop store links

Game engineering

Sep 29, 2026 · 3 min read

Separating Flight Rules from the Renderer in Air Traffic Control

How a browser, Windows, and Linux arcade game separates simulation, visible collision geometry, and local progression across short gameplay sessions.

Liftuno Today dashboard showing gym check-ins, member payments, and daily cash

Domain modeling

Aug 28, 2026 · 3 min read

A Gym Membership Calendar Must Not Invent Debt

A bilingual gym-management platform that gives Bangladeshi gyms a dependable alternative to paper ledgers for membership coverage, billing, attendance, receipts, and staff operations.

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Mobile engineering

Aug 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Web-to-Android Parity Needs an Evidence Trail

Builds or audits Android applications from existing web products with explicit feature traceability and platform-aware parity.

Skillfoliox - Agent Skill Catalog interface preview

Agent engineering

Aug 28, 2026 · 2 min read

How I Made AI Agent Skills Comparable Without Hiding Source Drift

A curated portfolio of reusable SKILL.md capabilities for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and other AI coding agents.

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Documentation systems

Aug 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Why I Made README Generation Start With Evidence

Installs one portable skill for Codex, Claude Code, or both that creates complete project READMEs from verified repository evidence.

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Developer tooling

Aug 28, 2026 · 2 min read

There Is No Single Source of Truth for Project Metadata

Audits and optionally synchronizes project identity and release metadata across authoritative local files.

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Release engineering

Aug 28, 2026 · 2 min read

A Release Is Not Done Because One Dashboard Is Green

Performs a read-only audit across GitHub releases, npm packages, tags, CI, and install commands.