How I Cleared the Claude Certified Architect Exam, and What Actually Helped

How I prepared for Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect exam, what actually helped, and how I passed with 865/1000.

Slay the Spire 2 - Video Games I Love

82 hours in and still no burnout. A deep dive into why Slay the Spire 2's deckbuilding, roguelike structure, and character design keep me hooked.

Obsidian - Links, Bases, and a Rabbit Hole

Why I love Obsidian — the local-first philosophy, internal links, Bases, and a small Python bridge I built to pull my data into Polars

Building AMY — a persistent memory layer for LLMs

Amy is a MCP server that gives Claude a persistent, graph-based memory — no embeddings, no vector store, just Neo4j and local markdown files.

Gamifying My Life: How I Built an AI Game Master

I built elaborate knowledge systems with RAG and Neo4j. I tracked everything meticulously in Obsidian. But I still wasn't motivated to actually write. So I turned my life into an RPG with an AI game master—and it's working.

Building a Cricket Scraper for My Obsidian Vault feat. Google Antigravity

Building CricketCLI with Google Antigravity took an hour. It was impressively fast and strangely hollow. Here's what I learned about AI-assisted development.

The Missing Link: How LUNE Solved My Consistency Problem

After building Emma and Clara for note-taking, I realized the bottleneck wasn't my tools—it was my consistency. LUNE uses daily rituals and structured prompts to finally solve the human problem in my productivity system.

A Lazy Saturday Upgrade: Adding RAG to CLARA

CLARA could query structured data perfectly but struggled with contextual questions. Adding RAG solved this, creating a hybrid system that understands both facts and feelings.

One Note at a Time: Turning Notes Into a Personal Jarvis

How I built a second brain using Obsidian, Neo4j, local notes, and the Model Context Protocol to let AI query my thoughts.