Essays

Coding With a Second Brain: My Experience Using AI in ICS 314

12 May 2026

I. Introduction AI has become a normal part of education because it can act like a tutor that’s always available. In software engineering, this matters because students are often dealing with code that breaks in small, confusing ways. AI can...

Engineering Reflection

Building Software the Right Way

07 May 2026

More Than Just Code Before this class, I thought software engineering was mostly about writing code and getting an app to work. Since the class used tools for making web applications, it would be easy to think the whole class...

Engineering Reflection

How Long Could It Possibly Take?

04 May 2026

Effort Estimation in Software Engineering Estimating Started as an Educated Guess At the beginning of the project, effort estimation felt more like an educated guess than an exact calculation. I based my estimates on task complexity, my previous experience, and...

Engineering Instrospection

Comfort in Constraints

26 Feb 2026

HTML and CSS are incredibly barebones. They are powerful but if you try to use these on their own to build something real, but due to this “barebone-ness” they tend to feel indifferent. They don’t care that you’re trying to...

Engineering HTML5 & CSS Bootstrap 5

Coding Standards: Pedantry or Productivity?

13 Feb 2026

When I first heard the phrase “coding standards”, what I initially heard is “more work”. If I’m coding alone, I can usually keep my own style consistent enough, and I don’t need a checklist to tell me how to do...

Engineering Coding Standards

Volume is Not Precision

29 Jan 2026

Something that I’ve learned through life, work, and relationships is that communication isn’t key, good communication is. In my experience, theres one idea that consistently improves communication: conciseness. When you’re concise, you avoid overloading the person you are talking to...

Technical Essay

Learning to Learn

22 Jan 2026

When I think about the things that got me into computer engineering, I always go back to my childhood. I started playing video games on a console called the PS2 on a CRT television when I was very young. I...

Engineering Goals