What We Stand For
Every site has values whether it admits them or not. Here are mine, said out loud: pro-trans, pro-queer, pro-Palestine, anti-fascist, anti-corporate. This is a place for people who got told ’not like that’ and did it anyway.
Kiro Steering Docs vs Skills — When to Use Which
I just spent the evening setting up my blog’s deployment workflow in Kiro, and at the end I had a choice: do I save this as a steering doc or a skill? They both let you give Kiro persistent context, but they work differently and solve different problems.
Here’s how I think about it after going through the decision myself.
What steering docs do
A steering doc is a markdown file that lives in
.kiro/steering/. It’s essentially a note you leave for future Kiro conversations: “here’s how this project works, here’s what to keep in mind.”How I Put This Blog on the Internet with AWS
When I built this blog, getting it running on my own computer was the easy part. Run one command, open a browser, done. The part that felt like a mountain was the next question: how do you take a folder of files on your laptop and turn it into a real website that anyone in the world can visit?
This post is the walkthrough I wish I’d had. No prior cloud experience needed. If you already know your way around DNS and S3, you can skim the steps and grab the Namecheap-specific gotchas. If you’re newer, I’ve linked out to deeper explainers at each tricky part so you can actually understand what you’re doing, not just copy commands. That’s the whole spirit of this blog: do it yourself, and learn how it works while you’re at it.
Hello World — First Post on imadestuff
Welcome to imadestuff
This is the first post on imadestuff.com — a place where I document the things I build, break, and learn along the way.
To kick things off, here’s the classic “Hello World” of electronics: a blinking LED on an Arduino.
The Circuit
Wire up an LED to pin 13 on your Arduino Uno with a 220Ω resistor. That’s it. Simple as it gets.
