Blog

A collection of technical posts, personal reflections, and more.

2025: My reads in review

Returning to blogging with an AI-assisted look at my 2025 reads.

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Using Notion to track my books

Notion is a document organizing tool that has really enabled me to centralize all my books information in one place.

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Esther's Books, a SwiftUI app for viewing my reads

A SwiftUI redesign of the Reading Quantified iOS app, showcasing the power of declarative UI for faster development.

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Reading Quantified, iOS Edition

An iOS app for Reading Quantified featuring a dashboard with key metrics and a searchable, sortable books list.

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Refactoring Reading Quantified

A complete overhaul of Reading Quantified, migrating from Node.js and Parse to Django and Metabase for improved analytics.

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Books and notes

Note-taking strategies for reading that help with recalling and reinforcing what you've read.

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Redesigning Reading Quantified

Redesigning the Reading Quantified dashboard to focus on annual trends instead of monthly breakdowns for better long-term insights.

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Introducing Reading Quantified

A data dashboard for tracking reading progress and metrics from my Trello book board.

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