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💌 Newsletters Irrational Exuberance My favorite newsletter, where Will Larson shares insightful perspectives on technology, team dynamics, business strategy, and executive leadership. The Beautiful Mess A recent addition to my reading list that offers valuable insights on complex systems and organizational dynamics. Pragmatic Engineer An essential resource for engineering managers and senior engineers. While it focuses less on technical details, it provides valuable strategic insights for technology leaders. Dear Architect...

📐 Architecture Azure Architecture Center A one-stop shop for all aspects of software architecture. AWS Well-Architected Tool Guidelines and best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems. Josh Comeau’s Blog Exceptional interactive, in-depth guides on Front End Development with clear explanations and interactive examples. 👥 Management Management 101 A practical guide of essential management fundamentals. This resource helped me navigate my first year as a lead and remains a valuable reference for quick refreshers....

🧠 AI Tools ChatGPT: General use cases Claude AI: Generation tasks Perplexity: AI Search DeepSeek: Chinese knowledge and generation Groq: Implemented for public-facing applications requiring low latency, such as Emoji Any Sentence Gemini: Deployed for public-facing general-purpose applications 📈 Productivity Tools Notion: Functions as my second brain for personal knowledge management Any.do: Manages my personal task list Airtable: Powers my work task management with robust automation capabilities Spark: Email client across all devices (Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Android) Raycast: Enhanced shortcuts and workflow automation Rocket: Efficient emoji insertion during typing Alfred: Keyboard shortcuts and workflows 📖 Reading Tools Physical books with LAMY Safari pen for annotations iPad with Apple Pencil for e-books PDF Viewer on iPad with Apple Pencil for document markup 💡 Ideation Tools Freeform: Used with Apple Pencil for visual brainstorming FigJam: Collaborative visual workspace tldraw: Minimalist drawing tool for quick visual concepts ✍️ Writing Platforms Notion: Primary drafting and note-taking environment Medium: Platform for publishing technical blog posts GitBook: Used for structured, comprehensive documentation 🛠️ Development Tools (For personal projects only, not for professional work)...

Hardware M4 MacBook Pro, M4 Mac Mini iPad Pro 12.9" Logitech MX Anywhere 2S Keychron K7 (Brown) & K3 (Blue) FILCO Majestouch MINILA Air (Red) Apple Magic Keyboard Dell P2422H, Samsung Curved IKEA BEKANT standing desk Google Pixel 8 + Pixel Buds Software Alfred Raycast Alacritty VSCode / Cursor Heynote for temporary text Chrome AI ChatGPT for general-purpose tasks and queries Perplexity for comprehensive research and information discovery Claude AI for specialized coding assistance Google NotebookLM for analyzing and learning from research papers, books, whitepapers, and other long-form content

This post isn’t about why people need a personal website. The “why” matters a lot the most, but it’s not our focus here. This is a technical guide sharing the process I followed to set up this website. ✅ Prerequisites Basic Git knowledge Some coding skills GitHub account (free plan) Cloudflare account (free plan) Domain name (paid but optional) If not all requirements are met, feel free to skip the rest 🚧 Development 1....