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CodeWaifu: Building an AI Code Assistant with Voice Control and VTuber Avatar

Greetings, this time I'll write about a project I haven't started yet but rather one I'm about to start with. Instead of writing about things I've learned/experienced, I'll try and use this entry to sort out my thoughts and come up with a plan on how to ap…

MandoMaster: AI-Powered Chinese Learning with Spaced Repetition

Hey there! First off, MandoMaster is live and free to use, so if you're interested you can just take a quick look to see what I'm talking about. Alright, time to write about another project of mine, this one is almost finished just waiting on a couple of …

Building a Digital Menu Startup: Lessons from bitmenu

In this comprehensive retrospective, I'll share everything I've learned while building bitmenu, a startup that enables restaurants to create digital menus accessible via QR codes and links. This project also served as an excellent opportunity to explore th…

6 Tips for Effective AI-Assisted Coding

Introduction: My Journey with AI Coding Tools So, I've started using Cursor about 6 months ago, in the beginning I was quite skeptical but by now I can't imagine going back to coding everything by hand. Generally it seems to me as though people are still t…