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Engineering, co-op life, side projects, and the occasional detour.

8 min read

TermPocket: a budget that runs on school terms, not months

A free, open-source finance app for Canadian university students that budgets by term, reads screenshots on your device, and lets you record spending by talking to Pocky.

  • project
8 min read

From $6.5K to $20K to –$2.6K

A CRO stake that tripled on a Trump Media headline, then crashed into a $2,600 loss and a 36-day lock-up.

  • investment
  • crypto
  • personal
21 min read

DearByte: Agent That Knows You

A self-hosted agent that reads my Apple Watch, calendar and budget, messages me first, and pays for small things once I approve. Plus, one month later: the labs shipped the same idea, and what that means for solo developers.

  • project
17 min read

A Waterloo Student's Honest Recruiting Recap 2025/2026

From zero interviews to 30+ rounds including startups, unicorns, and FAANG. The unfiltered version.

  • career
  • personal
7 min read

Echoes of the City of Angels

Story of spending a month’s salary to bridge the gap between a 14-year-old’s childhood fantasy and the raw, beautiful, and fractured reality of Los Angeles

  • travel
  • personal
5 min read

SlopFish: forcing captures inside Stockfish

What breaks in a chess engine when every capture becomes mandatory, and how a self-play arbiter caught the engine cheating 2.5% of the time.

  • project