I’m Colin, a CS student who likes to build things. Here you’ll find: mostly notes on code im writing, systems I’m learning, and post-mortems on decisions that seemed smart at the time.
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# Accelerant or Substitute: Learning to Code in the Age of AI.
Colin Venancio 11 min read
You’re deep in a project and staring at a feature that you have no idea how to build. Claude and ChatGPT are just a click away. You could take the time to actually understand the topic — the…
# Spring Boot is magic. So I built an HTTP server in Java to ruin the illusion.
Colin Venancio 19 min read
Spring Boot makes building a backend almost embarrassingly easy. Slap @RestController on a class, throw a @GetMapping on a method, hit “run”, and boom… you’ve got a functioning HTTP server before…