Building Go, a link-in-bio service in Rust
How I built a small self-hosted profile service in Rust and connected it to Fern.
A semester in the Middle East
Three months of Arabic immersion: what actually moved my speaking level, and the habits that stuck.
Running TorinBot for 470k users
How a weekend bot project became a half-million-user service — and the infrastructure lessons it taught me.
From Minecraft backends to languages
Why I traded server operations for verb tables, and the skills that carried over.