How I built a self-hosted photo gallery into my Jekyll Chirpy site. S3 and CloudFront for image hosting, custom layouts for album pages, Fancybox for lightbox viewing, and Lightroom for the export pipeline. Designed so anyone with a Chirpy site can replicate it.

Learning to edit RAW photos in Lightroom Classic for the first time. Profile choice, tonal adjustments, HSL, masking, preset creation, and export for CloudFront delivery.

The full culling workflow from 1,668 RAW images down to 467 intentional keeps. AI-assisted first pass, manual review, burst trimming, star ratings, and purpose-based collections.

A week in Montenegro with the A6700. Mountains, coast, snow, and rain.

Documenting homemade potato buns built for smash burgers. From first attempt to final recipe.

A baseline After Effects workflow for vertical gym videos. Marker-driven rep counters, cinematic motion, and export settings that survive platform compression. Built for repeatability.

A year without supermarket bread. Why I switched to sourdough, what ingredient labels revealed about commercial bread, and how freezing fits into my daily routine.

A childhood game, remastered. 20 years later, I'm playing it again.

A dusty PS4, a borrowed PS5, and 60 hours that reminded me why stories matter. This is what The Last of Us meant to me.

A simple pan-seared chicken breast with a rotating sautéed vegetable side. Seven days, seven vegetables — high protein, nutrient-dense, low carb. One pan, minimal prep.