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Notes on building software and what shipping products actually taught me, plus the occasional tangent.
Why I turned years of notes on focus, fitness, career, engineering, and mindset into a structured public knowledge base. And what writing it all down forced me to confront about how I actually operate.
A freelance portfolio used to mean a Behance page and a Google Sheet for tracking clients. I built my brother a full platform with a 6-stage lead tracker, contract generator, and rate calculator — all client-side, no backend. Here is why branding and tooling are the real moats in the age of AI.
How I went from "there should be a better way to study" to shipping a platform with 8,000+ practice questions, spaced repetition, and mock exams for the Philippine Architect Licensure Examination.
Everything I shared at AWS Community Day Cebu about shipping real products on the free tier. No surprise bills, just smart architecture choices.
That childhood promise to my lolo finally came true. Here's my story of surviving UP Computer Science and what being an Iskolar ng Bayan actually means to me.