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pixari.blog
Notes on engineering, AI, leadership, and building things that matter.
I Built a Game That Teaches Git by Making You Type Real Commands
Most git tutorials show you diagrams. Gitvana drops you in a terminal inside a pixel-art monastery and makes you earn your enlightenment one commit at a time.
The AI Echo Chamber Is the New Agile Industrial Complex
I've seen this movie before. A useful tool gets swallowed by a content machine, and the people who should be paying attention tune out. It happened with Agile. It's happening with AI.
How I Built a Real-Time Geopolitical Event Pipeline with Embeddings and LLMs
A deep technical walkthrough of a 7-stage pipeline that ingests 100+ RSS feeds, clusters articles with vector embeddings, synthesises structured events through multi-pass LLM processing, and serves them on a live dashboard with conflict tracking and automated alerting.
Building Global Crisis Monitor: A Real-Time Geopolitical Intelligence Dashboard
I built a system that ingests 80+ news feeds, clusters them with embeddings, synthesises events with AI, and surfaces a live map and briefings-plus auto-publishing to X and Threads.
I built the tool my public-speaking anxiety needed
A zero-friction teleprompter for talks and Zoom: no signup, no backend, with a compact mode that keeps you looking at the camera instead of the script.
How I Built My Perfect Family Budget App in Just 3 Days
Frustrated by budget apps that couldn't tell me where my money went, I built my own with Next.js and automation—and got real visibility in days.
The Year I Stopped Apologizing for the Chaos
Parenting young kids while leading a team: on guilt, the myth of balance, and finally refusing to apologize for being human.
The Abundance Trap: Why We Are Renting the Future
AI doesn't abolish scarcity—it reorganizes it. Why cheap output hides who controls the real choke points: compute, energy, and capacity.
The Paradox of AI-Acceleration: Why We Are Typing Faster but Shipping Slower
AI lets us generate more code—but cycle times aren't dropping. Why velocity without tests, review, and observability just adds mass and risk.