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Notes from the workbench.

A home for practical writeups on building software across PHP, mobile, databases, containers, and the parts of Rust that are changing how I think.

July 3, 2026

Convex made hobby apps feel light again

Convex has made small app development feel much easier because I spend less time worrying about webhooks, caching, and keeping the frontend in sync with backend state.

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July 3, 2026

How Ionic won me over

I did not like Ionic at first because it felt like HTML wrapped in a mobile view. The things that changed my mind were the community, the tooling, and how easy it was to onboard new colleagues.

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