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Receiptify Got Me Thinking: What If Your Spotify Data Generated Drinkable Recipes?

Receiptify turns your Spotify data into a receipt. I took that idea, asked "what if the output was drinkable," and built Jamutify, an AI apothecary that generates real Indonesian Jamu herbal recipes from your music taste, complete with sonic reasons, QR codes, and Instagram-ready recipe cards.

Jul 18, 2026•8 min read

Encrypting Secrets at the Database Layer: pgcrypto, Prisma Extensions, and Why I Trust PostgreSQL with My Keys

I built a private secrets vault where encryption happens inside PostgreSQL itself, not in my Next.js app. Here is how pgcrypto, Prisma client extensions, and a single env var came together, plus the trade-offs I accepted along the way.

Jul 15, 2026•7 min read

Desktop Apps Are Just Websites with Extra Steps (and That's Fine)

Honest comparison of Tauri and Electron from someone who built real desktop apps with both. Spoiler: they're both web wrappers, and that's okay.

Jul 10, 2026•9 min read