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HoopSim Devlog #2: Daily Slate, Multiplayer, data wrangling
October 08, 2026 · 3 min readThis HoopSim update covers Daily Slate fantasy basketball, multiplayer, schedule data, player projections, and the short-form video pipeline for recorded games.
Can You Swap Your LLM for Jev?
September 20, 2026 · 4 min readA Jev benchmark in Nurse Remotely's resume studio compares latency and cost with Gemini Flash-Lite, then tests model judgments against keyword matching.
HoopSim Devlog
March 02, 2026 · 3 min readHoopSim began as an answer to managing fantasy basketball across time zones. This devlog covers its origin, AI-assisted research, simulation design, and stack.
Getting Started with XState
October 09, 2019 · 4 min readA beginner's guide to XState state machines in React: defining states and transitions, assigning context, and invoking services to call the Rick and Morty API.
Getting Started With GraphQL
July 30, 2019 · 4 min readA beginner's look at GraphQL: building a simple Apollo Server schema with types and resolvers, writing queries, and comparing the approach to REST APIs.
Getting Started with TypeScript and NextJs
April 23, 2019 · 4 min readMy notes on adding TypeScript to a React and Next.js app: variable types, interfaces, tuples, async functions, and the configuration files that make it work.
Getting Started with NextJS, Styled Components and Rebass
April 10, 2019 · 4 min readA walkthrough of a Next.js starter boilerplate that combines Styled Components for CSS-in-JS and Rebass for UI components, and a look at server-side rendering.
Case Study - Web Scrapers
April 01, 2019 · 5 min readAn experiment comparing web scrapers in Node.js, PHP, and Python using Cheerio, Goutte, and BeautifulSoup to pull Dwyane Wade stats from Basketball Reference.
My Career Thus Far
March 20, 2019 · 6 min readA look back at a career path from an electrical engineering degree into software development jobs at several companies and startups, with resume shotgunning.