Writing
Notes from building things alone
Each piece comes out of a product I shipped, not from a topic list. No overviews of things I have not built.
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Two bathrooms for two dollars: calibrating price parsing in bazito
Money rules break on live listings. How each fix is checked against the whole corpus before it touches the board, and what the check catches in the fix itself.
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bazito: rent price guides for 11 countries, computed from live listings
bazito.app now has a guides section: median rent by city and district, second-hand markets, jobs and services. Every number comes from a dated snapshot of the feed.
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bazito: how an aggregator of Telegram classifieds is built
Where the line runs between rules and a model, what recall actually costs, and what never reaches this classifieds board.
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A procurement monitor that neither submits nor signs
Two queues instead of one, two locks instead of a shared one, a lot counts as hot an hour before the deadline, and the line the service does not cross.
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My laptop stopped keeping up: how I am choosing the next one
I shipped 11 products on an ultrabook with soldered memory. What it ran out of, what the 2026 platforms offer, and which vendor numbers do not hold up.
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Designing with AI: the machine does 90 percent, the work is in the other ten
A concept for a school media library. What I generate, where the model confidently produces garbage, and why the signature on the drawing is still mine.