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Introduction

I design developer systems that reduce friction and scale adoption.

I've mass-configured 150 flash drives overnight for a robotics workshop. Explained HMAC authentication to a room that thought I said "hammock." Built documentation systems that outlived two reorgs. Judged many a zany hackathon project.

75,000+ developers across 6 continents have used something I wrote to get unstuck.

Why a docs site?

I wanted a portfolio that works the way I work: structured, searchable, and slightly overengineered for the joy of it.

Also, I thought it would be funny.
It was.
For about 40 hours of Next.js debugging.

Building Docs from Scratch

Where to go from here

/quickstart — The TL;DR
/aampersand — The journey about building a creative writing tool for fiction writers
/changelog — Career history as versioning
On Writing Good Tutorials — My learnings and thoughts on tutorials
MongoDB x TanStack — A recent tutorial I wrote