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Thoughts on data, automation, and building systems.
May 4, 2026
What started as a League of Legends tournament manager grew into League Island—a multi-tenant platform with host-branded sites, Riot API workflows, live scorekeeping, Discord automation, and Stripe Connect. This post is about the architecture choices, the features that forced schema rewrites, and what I’d do differently if I started again.
Apr 7, 2026
API integrations are not just technical projects. They are business workflow projects that require understanding the data, the process, the edge cases, and the decision the integration is supposed to support.
Mar 26, 2026
AI has made me faster at building software, but the biggest benefit is not just speed. It helps me plan, debug, learn new tools, and turn rough ideas into working systems.
Mar 23, 2026
I learn new technical tools best by building something real with them. Documentation matters, but practical context makes the learning process faster and more useful.
Mar 12, 2026
Ecommerce data usually starts messy. The value comes from cleaning, standardizing, and turning it into dashboards that help people understand performance and make better decisions.
Mar 9, 2026
Internal tools may not always look flashy, but they can create huge value by reducing manual work, capturing business logic, and making repeated decisions easier to execute.
Feb 26, 2026
Managing large advertising budgets taught me that the best optimization decisions come from understanding profitability, incrementality, and business context — not just platform metrics.
Feb 12, 2026
Reports show what happened. Decision tools help people choose what to do next. That difference is what separates passive dashboards from useful business systems.
Jan 29, 2026
Revenue, clicks, and impressions can be useful, but they do not always tell you whether a decision is good for the business. Profitability-focused metrics create a clearer picture.
Jan 15, 2026
Automation is not just about saving time. The best workflows reduce repeated decisions, improve consistency, and make better business outcomes easier to reach.