Blog
Software engineering notes, milestones, and lessons learned.
A growing collection of posts on technical growth, certifications, projects, and the work behind becoming a stronger software engineer.
August 28, 2026
Tic-Tac-Toe Meets Math: Avoiding Hard-Coded Win Conditions
How a numeric board representation turns eight special-case wins into a general lesson about sums, indexes, and predicate logic.
August 5, 2026
Why I Am Offering Software Testing Consultations
How a focused technical conversation can turn a software idea, architecture question, or automation challenge into a practical plan with clearer tradeoffs and next steps.
July 15, 2026
JavaScript vs WebAssembly: What a Water Simulation Actually Teaches Us
An interactive, like-for-like water solver experiment about what WASM improves, what it does not, and how to measure the difference honestly.
July 7, 2026
Building Observable Incident Alerts with FastAPI, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana
How SmokeStack Ops turns simulated grill telemetry into a Kubernetes observability workflow with per-pod Prometheus scraping, Grafana dashboards, alert rules, and runbooks.
June 1, 2026
Building ArkenDriver: Lessons Learned from Writing a WebDriver Client in Rust
What building a from-scratch Rust browser automation framework taught me about WebDriver protocol design, typed APIs, driver setup, testability, and framework architecture.
May 16, 2026
Building IronCanvas: Learning Geometry and WebAssembly Through a Browser-Based Graphics Experiment
A look at using Rust, WebAssembly, and canvas rendering to learn vertices, transformations, browser rendering, and memory interaction from first principles.
May 12, 2026
Learning Systems Through Search: Building PgSeek with PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Docker, and Containers
How building PgSeek became a hands-on way to learn PostgreSQL-backed application design, TypeScript, Docker, and containerized development.
April 26, 2026
From Commit to Package: Building and Shipping a QR Code Generator with CI/CD
A case study in turning a simple QR code utility into a packaged, publicly distributed Python project with CI/CD and repeatable release automation.
April 15, 2026
Why Learning Assembly Still Matters (A Developer's Perspective)
A practical reflection on what a small NASM project taught me about memory, operating systems, debugging, and performance.
April 14, 2026
How I Earned My Web & Computer Programming Certificate from BYU Idaho
What the program covered, what I actually learned from it, and how it helped shape the foundation I use in software engineering work today.