Care Is Not a Feature Flag
A response to Nilay Patel's 'software brain' essay — why the chatbot I shipped last week has no LLM, and what I think people actually yearn for when they say they are tired of AI.
Writing
Book
Lightweight Django is a technical book that aims to show readers how to leverage the Django framework to work with modern web applications.
2026
The Portfolio as Conversation
An experiment in replacing traditional portfolio navigation with a guided chatbot — pre-scripted, static, bilingual, and accessible.
Testing the Foundation: What 'Working' Actually Means
Adding a lightweight test suite to a static Hugo site — translation parity, accessibility checks, component rendering, and dark mode — because the things that matter most are the easiest to break.
Adding Text-to-Speech (TTS) to my writings
How I added a text-to-speech player to my static Hugo site using the Web Speech API — built for accessibility, tested for screen readers, low vision, and color blindness, and handy for listening on walks and drives.
Turn and Face the Strange
A complete rebuild of my personal website — new framework, new design, bilingual content, mobile-native layout, accessibility-first architecture, and answer engine optimization.
Answer Engine Optimization
Why optimizing for answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews matters — and the practical changes I made to my site to prepare for the shift from traditional SEO.
Accessibility is the Foundation
How accessibility shaped every decision in this site rebuild — focus indicators, skip navigation, semantic HTML, ARIA patterns, reduced motion, and dark mode.
Part 5: Starman
Deploying the rebuilt site with GitHub Actions, sub-second Hugo builds, Lighthouse-tested performance, and a pipeline that disappears.
Part 4: Space Oddity
Building a mobile experience with a bottom tab bar, 44pt touch targets, system fonts, and device-aware detection — not just responsive breakpoints.
Part 3: "Heroes"
Translating every page and all 54 blog posts into Spanish using Hugo's multilingual framework, i18n files, and hreflang tags.
Part 2: Modern Love
Redesigning the site with a fixed sidebar, earth-tone palette, Lora and Inter typography, dark mode, and a mobile-native layout.
Part 1: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Migrating a 13-year-old Jekyll site to Hugo — cleaning up dead links, preserving every URL, and dropping dependencies to start fresh.