Journal

Words, in public.

Search notes, writing craft, Laravel experiments, and the trails that keep resetting my head.

Featured story · Travel

Sunrise Notes from Poon Hill

Three thousand stone steps, one cold morning, and the kind of light that makes you forget you were tired.

6 min · 18 June 2026

SEO

Keyword research is the easy half. The hard half is writing something a reader would finish even if search did not exist.

30 May 2026 · 8 min

Laravel / PHP

Notes from wiring together a small publishing system: models, slugs, caching, and keeping the editor experience boring.

9 May 2026 · 7 min

Personal

On lantern light, borrowed boats, and why I do most of my thinking at the end of the day.

21 April 2026 · 4 min

Content

Travel writing gets thin when it turns into an itinerary. Here is how I keep the detail and lose the brochure voice.

27 March 2026 · 5 min

Travel

Mardi Himal, a ridge above the clouds, and what four days without a signal does to the way you write.

14 February 2026 · 6 min