Selected frontend platforms and product systems explained through business context, technical constraints, architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and reflection.
Token-First Design System — Audit Layer Planned
A frontend architecture case study for ComponentIQ: why the plan started as a docs-and-AI-assistant monorepo, why the shipped v1 became a token-first design system and component library instead, and what a future automated audit layer still needs from that foundation.
Reverse-Engineered Notion Architecture Study
An independent engineering case study explaining why caching a page is not the same as making it available offline, using Notion's offline architecture to reason about dependency guarantees, provenance, hierarchy reconciliation, and freshness.
AI-Assisted Job Search — In Progress
In ProgressA Next.js application that integrates Claude AI for resume tailoring and job fit evaluation. An exploration of what happens when you treat AI as a tool inside a real product instead of a standalone chat interface.
Interactive investigations into how things work. Each experiment starts with a question and follows the rabbit hole.
Experiment / 001
How do I protect an expensive endpoint?
"I came here to understand rate limiting. Things got out of hand."
Experiment / 002
What if the network is unreliable?
"I have more questions than when I started."
