Blog Posts
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Site Redesign
A minimal redesign that's a bit retro, a bit modern, plus a move to Next.js 14.
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The Bakery Attack Take 2 by Haruki Murakami
Translation of Haruki Murakami's The Second Bakery Attack, a Japanese short story published in 1985.
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Building TranslateFiction
I built a small app in a weekend with the OpenAI API to help me translate short fiction.
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Building Yaya 1/4: Intro
Reflections on learning to code and building an AI language learning app, which never took off.
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Building Yaya 2/4: Lessons Learned
A deeper dive on the lessons learned while building Yaya
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Building Yaya 3/4: Backstory
How I got to Yaya, what I did, and our early iterations
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Building Yaya 4/4: Tools
Key tools (ChatGPT, Next.js, Firebase) and basics for beginners
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A 7 month Honeymoon
Courtney's and Patrick's postnuptial adventures in Asia, South America, and around the US.
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Axolotl by Julio Cortázar
Translation of Julio Cortázar's Axolotl, a Spanish short story published in 1956.
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What am I up to in 2023?
I'm getting married, learning to code, working on a language learning app, and traveling to Asia.
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Relearning to Code as an Adult
My journey from years of false starts to coding again, plus some lessons learned.
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Bashō Haiku
Translations of a few Japanese haiku by Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694).
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Early thoughts on AI
Initial impressions of various AI tools that I've been trying.