I’ve always said that I’m an "accidental" engineer. I build The Hangout Spot because I want the friction removed from my social life, and I self-host it on a $15 VPS because I want to own my data. But this week, I learned that "owning
By day, I’m a Marketing Director for an e-com brand. My life is ruled by calendars, KPIs, project management tools, and rigid organization. I have to be "on" all the time. Because I spend 40+ hours a week being hyper-organized, I am famously terrible at planning my
In my last post, I introduced the "why" behind this blog and the new server I built to dive headfirst into the world of AI. Today, it's time to get our hands dirty. I want to show you how I turned a bare Ubuntu container into
It all started with a Raspberry Pi and a classic Nintendo 64 game. I recently turned a Pi 4 into a retro gaming emulator, and with my marketing team heading into our busy season, I thought it would be the perfect tool for some fun, low-stress team building. The idea
If you want to pinpoint the exact moment my tech journey began, you’d have to ask my parents. They have a Polaroid of me, age three, standing on my tippy toes to press the power button on our family computer. Apparently, I was so obsessed with playing games on