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I was plant-based for around ten years of my life. It allowed me to learn how to adapt foods I had grown up with, I really enjoyed this aspect of that lifestyle. My mom would help me make plant-based ceviche, salad-like combinations of textured vegetable protein and pico de gallo, mix nutritional yeast into popcorn for a nice cheesy taste, or even create vegan alternatives for pozole and tacos. We…
Digital sovereignty, to me, means preserving a sense of control over my digital life. That control constantly feels under threat. As a Gen Z man, I grew up with heavily proprietary software. It felt like there were no real alternatives for consumers. Installations seemed scary and complex, and some desktop environments looked ugly next to macOS or early 2010s Windows. Companies like Google and…
For years, I maintained blog posts on this site and the prior iterations (prior to the .dev domain) that were disingenuous. I felt like I needed to have something on my site as filler content to appeal to recruiters or for quick glances, but if we are being honest, besides bots and some acquaintances, I don’t think anyone has bothered to read them in their entirety. Over the last couple of…
Experience I started coding because it seemed like the one door nobody could close on me, and I’ve spent the years since showing up to things a little early. Voice AI before the LLMs. Remote work as a job filter right as it went permanent. RAG before it had an acronym worth dropping. I’m not a fortune teller. I just like building the unglamorous plumbing that turns a good idea into…
Mar 14, 2026 at the Temple of the Moon, Teotihuacan I grew up in a working-class home in the Bay Area. My mom raised us on her own and I learned most things the hard way. Cooking because someone had to, fixing bikes because new ones cost money, coding because it seemed like the one door nobody could close on me. I work as a Full Stack Engineer at DoorDash, building the subscription systems behind…