Welcome to Watthem Blog

This is the homepage of Watthem Blog. Posts will appear here once they are published.

Check back soon for new content!

Recent Posts

Feb 14, 2025

How a library backpack metaphor helped ownership and borrowing finally make sense.

Tags: code rust learning

Jan 06, 2025

Clean, intuitive API reference for the emoji system with clear examples for each use case.

Tags: technical emoji api reference eleventy

Jan 02, 2025

How we built a sophisticated emoticon-to-emoji conversion system using AI embeddings, async filters, and semantic matching in Eleventy.

Tags: technical eleventy ai-tools emoji transformers nodejs

Jun 14, 2020

After months of instability and remote work, the cracks in my mental health widened. I was let go in June 2020 and left to pick up the pieces.

Tags: memoir career pandemic grief neurodivergence parenting

Mar 09, 2020

I started a new contract at Microsoft in March 2020, full of excitement and hope. But the world unraveled before I even got my badge.

Tags: memoir career pandemic neurodivergence microsoft

Obsidian plugin that surfaces related notes locally using Quarrel.