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The photo above depicts a portion of my backend in VScode and my handdrawn logo; all done in Clip Studio Paint because I don't use Adobe software.

I've been giving these coding jams a solid go round. While I'm still working on PPS assets, I've also decided to take on a project that ties a new skill to an old hobby: gardening. I've taken care of my fair share of herbs and plants. Basil and peppers being two of my favorites. So, I've developed an app called Verdant. It's a standard plant care app with reminders, recommendations, and a scanner. AI features like pulling info from the web for plant profiles has been incorporated as well.

I've been pacing myself with my work, some days I'm working on the backend, other days the frontend. Instead of rolling with a bad car analogy that will lose it's meaning along the road to the point (oooh...) I'm going to post a concept sketch for posterity's sake.

Truly it is a task on task in and of itself to make sure a local project is primed to scale and evolve.

Current set up:

I'm writing this still in the middle of the process but as I have started, I'm noticing a personal need I and I think many other people have for optimized Powershell permission configuration at set up. I would easily shell out a couple hundred dollars if it meant I had a laptop for developers set to RemoteSigned by default and setting up a Powershell wrapper for specific projects. I may be in the minority but I do want less clicks and friction for [x] to do [y].

I'm one post in and I'm thinking of half baked enshitifications...but this stuff can be annoying at the start.

I’m building things on the internet and documenting the process somewhere that doesn’t feel like a portfolio or readily obvious of who I am yet.

Expect:

-experiments

-half-written code

-infrastructure notes

-some rough sketches

Some posts will be technical. Some will just be observations about building software alone. Some will be incredibly crude chicken scratch of what I'm working on.