Version 5 of the Practice App. Main Improvements : Reworked interface, metrics corrected, added AI feedback, questions upload made simpler
Updated Focused Timer Website
Updating My Focus Timer Website – Because It Needed It A few months ago I built AuraFocus in a weekend. If you read that post, you know it was a scrappy sprint — me, Claude, a lot of trial and error, and something functional at the end of it. I was proud of it, but…
Building a Pipeline That Reads My Inbox For Me
The problem was simple: I subscribe to too many things. Economics journals. Policy newsletters. African development research. Science publications. Working papers from NBER and the World Bank. Books coming out of Verso and Pluto Press. Le Monde Diplomatique. VoxEU. New Scientist. At some point I stopped being someone who reads these things and became someone…
4 years of a Blank Youtube Screen
A few years ago I did an audit of how I spent my time and unsurprisingly I spent a lot of time on social media and Youtube. And Youtube was way ahead by miles. Ask me what I had watched yesterday and I could not tell you beyond 1 or 2 videos. Ask me what…
11 Learnings from Building an App using only ChatGPT
Objective: Create an app that includes Maths questions by chapter so as user can practice questions. When done, the app produces a PDF which includes questions, answers and metrics such as average time per question. Value proposition: (1) Quick access to maths questions without having to recopy questions from book to exercise book (2) User…
Building My Focus Timer Website in a Weekend
Usually, when I want to focus on deep work, I have a routine: I put on my headphones, set one of my three screens to a Tokyo livestream, and play background music on another site, often looping it for hours. It’s unconventional, but it helps me get into flow. The problem was obvious: there are plenty…