Ai on Zaid

Why arent there better finance tools?

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie (2025)

Why arent there better tools for personal finance?

Ive always wanted to manage my finances without relying on a third party app. Ive been using Money Manager for years now. Dont get me wrong, its a great app. But the moment I want any insight that isnt already baked in, I have to jump through hoops with exports and workarounds.

Building a Slack Bot was more than just a day of work

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Presidents Cake (2025)

Tickets are a pain and a big deterrent to actual work. Someones gotta do it though. At first it was manageable, a request here, a thread there. As it went on, the less confident I was that I could keep up.

Reminders from weeks back of a simple permission request started showing up and I realized I had to sort this out somehow.

How I Built This Website

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tokyo Fist (1995)

I’ve been meaning to put a personal site together for a while. Not anything fancy, just somewhere to write and put my thoughts out. Between work and everything else, it kept getting pushed back. So I decided to stop overthinking it and just get something live.

The stack

The site runs on Hugo, a static site generator written in Go. Something you’ve probably heard of before. I went with it because it’s fast, simple, and I’m learning Go anyway so I figured I’d stay in that ecosystem.