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The build log.

Documenting the experiments — the failures, the pivots, and the moments of accidental insight.

25 posts found

How I Fixed AI Over-correction

A small bugfix story from a meeting speech-to-text assistant app where AI was over-correcting too aggressively. What this app does The app converts spoken conversation into live text. Since STT frequently misrecognizes technical terms, AI auto-correc...

AIBug FixVORA

Feb 24, 2026·2 min read

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24VIBED LAB B.LOG

I Spent 3 Hours Trying to Proxy a Blog Subdomain. Here's My Descent Into Madness.

CloudflareNext.js

Feb 24, 2026·5 min read

23VORA B.LOG

Deploying to Cloudflare Pages: Static Hosting, CORS Headers, and the Sitemap/Robots Incident

DevOpsCloudflare

Feb 21, 2026·7 min read

22CRYPTOBACKTEST B.LOG

The i18n + SEO Cleanup Chronicles: Canonical Chaos, hreflang Therapy, and Other Adventures

Dev LogSEO

Feb 20, 2026·3 min read

21VIBED LAB B.LOG

Hello World - A Non-Developer Enters the Chat

No-CodeAI

Feb 20, 2026·1 min read

Feb 19, 2026

2 min read

VORA B.LOG

How We Made VORA Bilingual Without a Heavy Localization Stack

VORA supports both Korean and English across core product surfaces.We built this without a full localization framework, using a pragmatic architecture that worked for our stage. This post covers the approach, tradeoffs, and what we would change at la...

i18nKoreanVORA

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19VORA B.LOG

The Branding Journey: From a Functional Name to VORA

BrandingProduct

Feb 18, 2026·3 min read

18CRYPTOBACKTEST B.LOG

The Mobile Menu Trilogy: One Button, Three Fixes, Mild Emotional Damage

Dev LogFrontend

Feb 17, 2026·4 min read

17VORA B.LOG

The Dark Theme Redesign: Building a UI That Looks Like a Professional Tool (After It Looked Like a Hobbyist Project)

DesignUI

Feb 17, 2026·8 min read

16PK·SWIFT B.LOG

Buy Me a Coffee Setup Playbook for Solo Builders

PK-SwiftMonetization

Feb 16, 2026·3 min read

Feb 16, 2026

2 min read

PK·SWIFT B.LOG

SEO, AdSense, and Coffee Buttons Without Looking Desperate

The week PK-Swift improved indexing, social previews, and support widgets while trying not to feel like a billboard.

PK-SwiftSEOMonetization

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14PK��SWIFT B.LOG

The Meeting Summary Timer Bug: Why setInterval Isn't Enough for Reliable Scheduling

VORA generates a rolling meeting summary every 60 seconds. That's the design. In practice, the summary was arriving at unpredictable intervals: sometimes 30 seconds, sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes seemingly never. Users noticed. We knew it was broken...

Bug FixFrontendVORA

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09VORA B.LOG

Groq Dual-AI Integration: Why We Added a Second AI and What It Actually Fixed

AIAPI

Feb 12, 2026·7 min read

08VORA B.LOG

Building the Priority Queue: How We Stopped Gemini API Chaos — and Why the First Two Designs Both Failed

AIAPI

Feb 10, 2026·8 min read

07PK·SWIFT B.LOG

Smart Parse Saved My Sanity, AI Parse Saved My Weekend

PK-SwiftAI

Feb 10, 2026·2 min read

06VORA B.LOG

Building an N-Best Reranking Layer for Better Korean STT (Without Extra API Calls)

AIKorean

Feb 8, 2026·4 min read

Feb 7, 2026

7 min read

VORA B.LOG

Why We Killed Speaker Identification (And What We Learned from Two Weeks of Failure)

There are features you build, ship, and feel proud of. Then there are features you spend two weeks on, demo to yourself in the mirror, realize they are completely broken at a fundamental level, and then delete entirely. Speaker identification for VOR...

AISTTProduct

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04VORA B.LOG

The Whisper WASM Experiment: Why Browser AI Is Harder Than It Looks

AIBrowser

Feb 5, 2026·3 min read

03VORA B.LOG

From Python Server to Pure Browser: The Architecture Pivot That Changed Everything

ArchitectureFrontend

Feb 3, 2026·4 min read

02VORA B.LOG

Why I shipped VORA before writing a single line of backend code

VORAProductivity

Feb 1, 2026·2 min read

01CRYPTOBACKTEST B.LOG

8 years of Bitcoin data taught me more than any trading book

CryptoBacktestFinance

Jan 20, 2026·2 min read