THE JOURNAL / 16 ENTRIES
Notes from
the process.
Ideas, decisions, detours. A record of the work as it happens.
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A front door for what I’m building
Reviewing my projects, simplifying the portfolio, and working out how case studies and development posts can support each other.
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Returning to BakerLinks: making room for more choices
Improving profile customization, adding visual energy, and working on the small interactions that make a project-sharing page easier to manage.
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Returning to Bakerversity: building the authoring experience
Using a technical course to develop responsive editing, presentation, and content-management workflows in my LMS prototype.
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Back From the Dead
Returning to dormant projects, deciding where to spend my Codex sessions, and putting my writing skills to work along the way.
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Building Baker Parks: What the Data Doesn’t Tell You
How visiting San Francisco’s parks turned a public-data prototype into a project about photographs, context, and useful information.
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Building Sketchlet: Making Room for Other People
Building a drawing studio is only part of Sketchlet. Testing sharing and inviting other people in is the next step toward a daily creative habit.
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Building Portfolio Deluxe
How I turned a forked portfolio starter into a content system with case studies, a filterable project index, a contact form, and a small admin dashboard.
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Creating Mike's List, the SF Bay Area Show Explorer
How I turned thin concert listings into a reviewable music discovery workflow — and what I learned about trust, ambiguity, and data quality along the way.
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What I'm Building Now
A tour through the projects I am developing, how they work, where they fit together, and the product challenges they are helping me explore.
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Building BakerLinks
How I built a free link-in-bio platform focused on simple publishing, hosted data, and clean public profile pages.
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Building Baker University
A learning-platform experiment exploring course structure, rich lesson editing, and technical content support — and what online art education taught me about building for attention.
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Building and Deploying This Blog with Astro
A walkthrough of how I built this site — from scaffolding an Astro project to deploying on GitHub Pages, and the features I added along the way.
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Building the Fantasy Basketball Dashboard
How I built a self-hosted dashboard for a custom fantasy sports competition using Python, Flask, and Railway — and what I learned about translating rules into data models.
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Building the Movie Database Project
How I used TMDB data to build a focused movie lookup tool — and why resisting encyclopedic completeness is the interesting design challenge.
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Building Notion Archive Cleaner
How I built a small utility for cleaning UUID-appended filenames from Notion exports — and what a narrow tool taught me about product thinking at small scale.
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Building the RPG Character Tracker
How I approached dynamic character management for Pathfinder 2E — and what dense tabletop rules taught me about interface design for complex state.