Segni’s Sandbox

The journey.

1. Mar 2026

   Sprint and Ship

   The channel opened with a 90-day sprint challenge (fix the CV, set up the stack, build momentum) and picked up Go for a new project. By month's end it had chased down a deploy bug, a missing Auth URL on Render, and introduced Apex and WinPort.

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2. Apr – May 2026

   Down to the Metal

   April went low-level: the channel wrote its own bootloader with NASM and QEMU, then listed the lessons, from MBR versus GPT to real and protected mode. Other projects paused it for a while, and in May the channel cleared its plate to get back to it.

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3. Apr – May 2026

   The Tip Sheet

   Between builds the feed doubled as a tip sheet: React and Next.js layout architecture, REST versus GraphQL, skeleton UIs over spinners. The standout warning: a .env file alone won't keep API keys out of a frontend bundle.

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4. Jun 2026

   Hackathon Day

   June brought a return to C++, where C++26 impressed by cutting boilerplate for web microservices. Then came the ALx Wellness Hackathon, covered in a burst of posts on the day, from arrival to the panel discussion to a last-minute exhale.

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5. Aug – Oct 2026

   The Deep Work Era

   August opened with Deep Work v1.0.0: tasks, goals, a journal and a Focus Room with ambient nature sounds in one app. Version 1.0.1 followed in September, the web version and v1.0.2 arrived in October, and 680 people have checked it out.

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Building now.

Start here.

1. 01

   The Deep Work launch post: tasks, goals, journaling and a Focus Room in one app.

   Introducing Deep Work 📊 I've always wanted a single app where I could log tasks, capture thoughts, set goals and focus without jumping between five different...

   Aug 1, 2026611 views
2. 02

   Apex's debut, a crash-monitoring engine with AI-powered forensics.

   APEX: The Architecture of Recovery Imagine a world where crash monitoring actually makes you smile. Apex is that high performance engine built for the modern i...

   Mar 21, 20261.2K views
3. 03

   The bootloader milestone, with a tidy list of lessons from MBR versus GPT to VGA.

   Finished writing my own bootloader😁. For now only one msg displays. Used nasm and qemu for execution. Lessons Learned: - What a bootloader really is and how i...

   Apr 13, 2026106 views
4. 04

   A quick way to check whether your API keys are leaking into your frontend bundle.

   You need to be careful with how you handle your API keys. A lot of us think using a .env file automatically makes our API keys safe. It doesn't. If you use AI t...

   May 28, 2026139 views
5. 05

   A short case for skeleton UIs over spinners and loading bars.

   When building frontends if you are using basic spinners or loading bars please stop and use skeleton UIs instead. They massively improve perceived performance....

   May 18, 2026796 views

In their own words.

Fresh from the channel.