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confidence is a structure 🤔

February 28, 2026 • notes

i used to treat confidence like something purely inside me. lately i’ve been noticing how much of it is social, and why that’s not a weakness.

my ears adapt too fast 🎧

February 24, 2026 • notes

today on the way to the office, a david guetta track made me realize something: ai music is not the main story. my expectations are.

what i’ve learned from llms (and context) 🧠

February 20, 2026 • notes

i keep realizing i’m not wrong. i’m just working with a smaller context window. and that’s fine.

the moment i stopped comparing my pace 🧭

February 17, 2026 • notes

i realized i wasn’t slow. i was just listening to too many timelines that weren’t mine.

doing less on purpose

February 16, 2026 • notes

i used to think progress meant adding more. lately i’m realizing it often means stopping earlier.

behind the scenes 🎬

February 16, 2026 • experimental

i built a tiny internal tool for my own blog. i’m not a developer. i just use cursor, try things, break things, and somehow it works.

Building a Real-time Transit Monitoring Dashboard: A Nuremberg Transit Project

May 5, 2025 • Data Engineering

As a regular user of Nuremberg's public transportation, I found myself asking questions that standard transit apps couldn't answer: Which routes consistently experience delays? How does the system perform during peak hours?

Building a Modern Financial Data Pipeline: My Journey from Excel to dbt

April 18, 2025 • Data Engineering

Learn how I built a complete financial data pipeline using Python, dbt, and modern data engineering techniques to transform Excel-based reporting.