Journal

This journal documents my coursework in public: what I built, why I chose it, and what broke along the way.

The current focus is AIDA (AI-Driven Applications), the 4th-semester elective, covering RAG pipelines, code agents, LLM API integration, and the AI features on this site itself. Those posts are tagged AIDA.

Earlier entries, from January to April 2026, cover JavaJolt, my 3rd-semester backend exam project: a RESTful Java API built over twelve weeks, where I was tech lead, scrum master and the whole development team at once. Those stay here as the record of that semester and are tagged JavaJolt.

One site, two semesters, one continuous professional record rather than a new repo per course.

Journal

2026

Where MCP Would Fit in a Project Like Standflow

The Excursion I Missed, and Building for a Place I Had Not Seen

The Legal and Ethical Side

Secrets, Escaping and Safe Choices

Building a Whole Project with a Code Agent

Specs as the Theory Behind the Code

Standflow: From an Overflowing Inbox to a Working System

Architecture of an LLM-Backed Rubric Assessor

Building an AI Rubric Assessor: What Today Actually Taught Me

Code Agents: What It Actually Looks Like to Debug With One

RAG II: Making the Chatbot Keep Up With Itself

RAG I: Three Ways to Build a Chatbot, One Afternoon to Compare Them

AIDA Kickoff: Bringing AI Into the Portfolio