Hello, world.

This is the first post on what I hope becomes a regular notebook. The plan is short notes from the projects pile (auth systems in Go, password managers in Rust, ear-training apps in Python), things I picked up while building, and the occasional tangent on why I picked something hard when an easier option existed.

I tend to learn by writing things from scratch. Sometimes that's an encryption module I could have imported, sometimes it's a session-based auth flow with token rotation that I could have outsourced to a framework. The point isn't reinventing wheels (it's mostly that I want to know what's inside the wheel).

So if any of that sounds interesting, stick around. If not, my GitHub probably has something for you anyway.