I made this site as a personal outlet. Nothing too grand behind it. I just wanted a place to learn, mess around, and throw whatever’s been stuck in my head somewhere that isn’t a notes app graveyard.
It really started when I got the GitHub Student Pack. At the time I thought, why am I posting on Medium when I could just have my own space? So I decided to build it myself.
I had no idea what I was doing, by the way. Hugo, GitHub Pages, setting up a custom domain, all of it was new. I just kept poking at things until they worked. And when it finally did work. That very simple, very satisfying “I made this.” It’s kind of addictive.
That’s how this whole thing exists.
Lately though, something’s been shifting a bit. I’ve been getting pulled into the whole AI “vibe coding” space, and it’s been messing with how I think about building things.
I’ve never been a coder. Still not, really. But building used to feel more straightforward in my head. You sit down, you make something, and the process is yours from start to finish. Now it feels different. It’s less about writing everything yourself, and more about describing something clearly, shaping it, nudging it in the right direction, and watching it take form.
That’s basically how Letter Demon came together.
I didn’t write most of the code. Tools like Claude Sonnet and Copilot handled a lot of that. What I actually did was decide what the thing should be. How it behaves. What it’s trying to do. I spent more time thinking about the logic, the constraints, and the structure than typing out lines of code.
And that’s where things start to feel a bit weird.
Because now I keep asking myself: what does it actually mean to “build” something?
If you’re not the one writing every line, but you’re the one shaping the system, making decisions, setting boundaries… is it still yours? Or is authorship slowly shifting from execution to direction?
I don’t have a clean answer for that yet.
Maybe that’s why I’ve always liked word games. Stuff like Scrabble, spelling bees, or Shiritori, that Japanese game where each word has to start with the last letter of the previous one. You’re always working within constraints. You react, adjust, and something comes out of it that neither side fully planned.
This whole AI-assisted building thing feels a bit like that to me.
Outside of all this, music’s pretty much always playing in the background. What I’m into changes a lot. Lately it’s been deep prog house, jerk, grunge, dream pop, shoegaze, midwest emo, post-hardcore… it’s a mix. Depends on the day, honestly.
As for this site, there’s no big roadmap. No content strategy or anything like that. It’s probably just going to be a mix of small projects, half-finished ideas, and things I’m figuring out as I go.
And I think I’m okay with that.
Not everything needs to be polished or complete to be worth putting out there.
Anyway, that’s where I’m at right now.
More soon.