Things I wrote down
Engineering, AI, golf, the game, and the occasional story about capsicums. Newest first. Photos count as entries too.
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I Built a Network Inspector for the iOS Simulator
Snoopy shows every request your iOS app makes in the simulator, bodies included. No proxy and no root certificate.
→ Apr 122026 · 6 min read GameSameer's World: Building a Pixel Art Diary of My Life
I built a Pokemon-style pixel art game that's actually a visual journal of my life — my apartment, my golf course, my favorite restaurants, and the people I care about.
→ Apr 22026 · 12 min read AIBuilding Generative UI: How I Got an LLM to Design Native Interfaces
A deep dive into building a system where Claude generates native SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose layouts at runtime through a constrained JSON DSL and agentic tool use.
→ Mar 112026 · photo
Hole 18, golden hourNeedwood · Mar 26GolfA photo is an entry. Same list, same stamp, no essay required.
Feb 202026 · 2 min read AIGenerative UI: What Happens When SwiftUI Meets an LLM
I explored whether an LLM could generate native SwiftUI at runtime. Instead of runtime code compilation, I designed a DSL approach that actually works.
→ Feb 52026 · photo
I love bush <3Sugarbush · Feb 26SkiSugarbush summit, 1,191m, everything rimed. Cold enough that the phone died right after this.
Oct 92025 · 8 min read LifeAndy's Pizza and the Art of Customer Obsession
How my favorite pizza place turned me into a better engineer — a story about customer obsession, broken POS systems, and making pizza with the legend himself.
→ Nov 292018 · 7 min read LifeFresh off the Boat
My first day of college in a country I'd never been to. A story about capsicums, Dr Pepper, a bus to IKEA, and the stranger who gave me a ride.
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