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Notes from the work.

Writing on ecommerce engineering, AI, and the decisions in between — drawn from client work, not theory.

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14 June 2026 4 min read

Why I built a mood diary with seven answers

Mottled is a mood diary reduced to a single tap: pick one of seven colours a day and watch the year take shape. On friction, colour as vocabulary, and what a heatmap knows about you.

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Laravel

29 May 2026 4 min read

Quizine, or learning to cook on purpose

I cook most nights and realised I couldn't answer why for half of what I do at the stove. So I built a freerice-style quiz app to drill culinary knowledge — and the explanations turned out to be the product.

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Laravel