are you asking the right question?
One of the craziest things I have read in… checks notes Three days. Welcome to the singularity, I guess. The recent list looks something like this: 07/21/26: OpenAI reveals that mo…
Ombogo Jr
Building things and writing down what the building taught me. Static sites, small tools, and the occasional strong opinion.
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8 entriesfind the problem
My late father, Engineer Ombogo, always advised me: “It is easy to make money. Find people’s problems, especially HNWI guys, and fix them.” 😅 That was how he spoke. A complicated…
building in the light
the last time i was properly inside tech was probably ten years ago. i studied electrical and computer engineering, then somehow found myself doing marketing. not adjacent to marke…
don’t animate a vacuum
when someone hands you a shapeless non-question, it is easy to contort yourself trying to guess what would satisfy it. i know this because i am very good at it. but before solving…
i don’t want to build brochure websites
my friend ash recently commented that i’m picky, choosy, and apparently unwilling to work with just anyone. he is not entirely wrong. of course i need the money. i have bills, busi…
Eleventy vs a Hand-Rolled Build
Having built the same small site both ways, once on Eleventy and once on a single hand-rolled script, I want to lay the two side by side honestly. Neither is wrong. They just fail…
Building a Site on Eleventy
I started this site the way I start most things: with a folder and a vague plan. This time the plan was to lean on Eleventy and let it do the boring parts, and I came away happy en…
Building a Site on a Hand-Rolled Build
Before I settled on a generator, I built a version of this site with nothing but a single Node script. No framework, no plugins, just a file called build.mjs. It was a good exercis…