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Published Mar 16, 2026

Building nthings.dev

Why this site exists, what it will hold, and why a small web presence still matters.

  • development
  • experiments

This site is intentionally small.

I wanted a place to collect the work and ideas that rarely fit inside a resume, a chat thread, or a project README. Something closer to a notebook than a feed, and closer to a portfolio than a stream of half-finished updates.

For me, that means a few things:

  • a clear home for selected projects
  • short writing about systems, interfaces, and product decisions
  • room for experiments that are useful even when they stay rough at the edges

I rebuilt this space with Astro because it rewards restraint. It is fast, simple to reason about, and flexible enough to grow without dragging a lot of framework ceremony along with it.

What will show up here

Most of the writing will sit somewhere between engineering notes and product thinking. I am usually interested in the part where architecture, tooling, and interface decisions start affecting real product quality.

That includes topics like:

  • AI-native workflows and agents
  • frontend systems and performance
  • practical architecture choices under product pressure

Why publish it at all

Publishing in public forces a useful kind of clarity. If I cannot explain the shape of a problem or the tradeoffs behind a solution, I probably do not understand it well enough yet.

This site is for that kind of work: making the thinking visible, one project and one note at a time.