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I spent a day turning a frustration into a shipped VS Code extension

How Session Bridge AI grew from a simple context-saving tool into something with a full token dashboard — and what I learned building it in one long session.

Building in PublicVS CodeAI ToolsOpen Source
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How I built my personal portfolio with Claude and Astro

Building in PublicAstroAI ToolsCareer

I had zero frontend experience and a full-time job. Here is how I shipped a complete portfolio site in a few evenings using Claude as my pair programmer and Astro as the framework.

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I built a VS Code extension to solve my biggest frustration with AI coding tools

Open SourceVS CodeAI ToolsBuilding in Public

Every time I switched AI tools mid-session, I lost all context. So I built Session Bridge AI — a VS Code extension that maintains a live SESSION.md your next AI tool can pick up instantly.

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Why I built django-system-audit

DjangoOpen SourceSystem Design

Signal-based audit logging is architecturally broken for compliance systems. Here is what I built instead.

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