A checkpoint of open-source financial side projects: ibkr-ir for Brazilian IR, a portfolio HTML generator, and a BTG Excel-to-OFX converter. All run offline.
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Notes about software development, technical experiments, and lessons from building things. These are quick captures, mostly AI-assisted. For polished essays, see the main blog (how I write).
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Financial Projects Checkpoint: ibkr-ir, Portfolio Sharing, and OFX Conversion -
Building ibkr-ir for Brazilian Global Investors I built ibkr-ir to turn IBKR CSV exports into the numbers Brazilian investors need for IR reporting, offline and open source.
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How I Use AI to Write Without Losing My Voice How I stopped treating AI draft feedback like a bug audit, and rebuilt my review workflow to keep my voice.
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How I Keep My Curriculum Updated in Under 10 Minutes A simple workflow with experience.md as the source of truth, Cursor commands, and LaTeX conversion to keep my CV and cover letter updated in under 10 minutes.
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How AI Helped Me Free ~120GB and Organize My Backups How AI helped me free ~120GB before a LUKS backup, reorganize a USB drive, and build a bidirectional Proton Drive sync script.
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Personal Projects Checkpoint: books-cli, cards-cli, ship-it, and More A checkpoint of recent vibe-coded personal projects, and how a shared AI harness keeps them organized with issues, PRs, and changelogs.
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The Step We Skip When Developing with AI Before shipping AI-assisted code, explore alternative paths, review your solution, and stress-test edge cases in a fresh session.
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Nine Lessons from Building a White-Label Reverse Logistics Platform Nine lessons from building a customizable e-commerce reverse logistics platform at scale.
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Talking Instead of Typing: First Impressions on Voice Prompting A few days of dictating AI prompts in Cursor surprised me: more context, faster output, and even devlog posts written by voice.
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Give the Tool, Not Only the Prompt Simple tools like a CLI or a bash script often give AI agents more leverage than a clever prompt alone.
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Programming Is More Fun Than Ever Why building for fun is not a waste of time, and how being a creator compounds into sharper thinking and better ideas over time.
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The Workflow Around AI Matters More Than the Model Skills, tools, and project rules around the model matter more than the model itself for AI-assisted development.
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Payments on App Store, Google Play, Stripe with one RevenueCat Setup A checklist for setting up App Store, Google Play, and Stripe subscriptions through RevenueCat.
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White Screens in Production: Fixing Meteor Cordova Hot Code Push Production users hit white screens after a Meteor Cordova hot code push mismatch.
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Test Plans Before the PR Ask for the test plan before opening the PR, not after.
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We're Wasting the Real Benefits of AI The best part of AI is not speed. It is the hour you get back to plan properly.
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Millions of Documents, COLSCANs on Two Collections, Background Indexes Millions of documents, COLSCANs on two collections, fixed with background indexes.
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MongoDB Troubleshooting Queries: Saving Time on Performance Investigations Save the diagnostic queries before the next CPU spike hits.
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Bulk Operations Can Break Meteor Reactivity Bulk database inserts can slip past Meteor reactivity and freeze the UI.
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I Asked AI How to Use It I asked the model itself how to work with it better.
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Top-Level Clarity First: Why I'm Pre-Planning Before Planning A clarification round before planning keeps big changes aligned at the top level.
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I Needed to Create My Own Battery Monitor My Linux Mint stopped warning about low battery, so I built a cron fix.
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How to Create a Cold Wallet the Simple Way A step-by-step guide to creating a Bitcoin cold wallet with Tails.
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Techocalypse Now: Extreme Hypotheticals for Developers Extreme hypotheticals to make you think outside the code box.
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Event Loop Basics: This Time You Understand A simple explanation of the Event Loop you can teach your grandmother.
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Exploring Terraform: Your First Guide to Infrastructure as Code Pull a Docker image and run a container using only Terraform.
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Pilot A git history of my day-to-day life as a developer, raw and not polished.