Building in the open
Short pieces on building trajecktory, running a job search like a pipeline, and the small engineering problems that quietly matter. Each one stands on its own and is written to be shared.
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The invisible characters hiding in your AI-written text
Zero-width spaces, smart quotes, stray dashes, and watermark-style marks ride along invisibly every time you paste from an AI tool. Why they cause real problems, and how I built a cleaner into trajecktory.
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The invisible characters hiding in your AI-written text
The invisible Unicode that rides along when you paste from an AI tool, why it breaks forms and resumes, and the open-source cleaner I built.
Relaunching my career by building the tool I needed
I could not find the job-search tool I wanted, so I built it. What building it gave back during a career relaunch.
I built a system to run my job search like a pipeline
Stages, a scoring step at the front, and a follow-up cadence that does not depend on memory. The whole system, in plain terms.
What tracking every job application actually taught me
Fewer applications, more responses, and a warm reply rate about 2.8 times the cold one. The lessons the data made impossible to ignore.
More on the way. In the meantime, see the trajecktory case study or connect on LinkedIn.