# G. Casqueiro
> Following the energy from architecture to code. Learning JavaScript, Node.js, and React in public. Building tools, exploring SaaS ideas, and documenting the journey.
Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context.
Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`).

## Pages
- [About this site](https://gcasqueiro.com/about.md) - Hello there! 👋 My name is G. Casqueiro, a former architectural designer transitioning into web development, and this is my corner on the (small) web. I spent 15 years working in architecture and visualization. Over the course of 2025, I noticed the "spark" for that kind of work fading. It wasn't s…

## Posts
- [My Own Theme, Finally](https://gcasqueiro.com/my-own-theme-finally.md) - Ghost’s default themes are good, and that’s the problem with them. They look the same on thousands of sites. I wanted something that actually felt like mine, so while on vacation I described the whole thing to Grok 4.5 through T3 Code and let it write the code.
- [Skiff For Nothing](https://gcasqueiro.com/skiff-for-nothing.md) - Skiff was an amazing product. A serious end-to-end encrypted workspace. Notion bought it, shut it down, and replaced it with an overhyped Gmail wrapper that now is facing the same fate.
- [The Best Model I Couldn't Keep](https://gcasqueiro.com/the-best-model-i-couldnt-keep.md) - Anthropic released Fable 5 on June 9, then pulled it three days later. It helped finish my agency dashboard, and I doubt anything like it comes back soon.
- [The AI That Stays at Home](https://gcasqueiro.com/the-ai-that-stays-at-home.md) - Paying a small monthly fee and sending prompts to distant servers has become the normal way to use AI. Running a capable model on your own machine has always been an option on paper, but the time required to make it work has kept it niche.
- [The Mob Won. Blender Lost](https://gcasqueiro.com/the-mob-won-blender-lost.md) - Anthropic offered Blender 240.000€ a year in ongoing funding. Four programmer jobs. The community revolted, and three days later the Foundation folded. Here's why it bothers me.
- [Every Good Name is Taken](https://gcasqueiro.com/every-good-name-is-taken.md) - A couple of weeks ago I decided to try to build an RSS reader. I grabbed my notebook, listed every feature I wanted, and started imagining the UI. The code is coming together. The name, however, is proving much harder than I expected.
- [When the Cloud Reminded Me Who's Really in Control](https://gcasqueiro.com/when-the-cloud-reminded-me-whos-really-in-control.md) - Last week the platforms I count on for client work failed one after another. Not in some dramatic collapse, but at the exact moments I needed them most.
- [The Glass Wall](https://gcasqueiro.com/the-glass-wall.md) - Anthropic announced a model too capable to release publicly. Project Glasswing is the response, and it cuts right to the heart of who controls the tools the whole internet runs on.
- [Between You and the Tool](https://gcasqueiro.com/between-you-and-the-tool.md) - John O'Nolan built a CLI for Ghost on a whim, used it for an hour, and found it hard to go back to the browser. I was thinking about a version of the same problem, but from a different angle.
- [The Format That Outlasted Everything](https://gcasqueiro.com/the-format-that-outlasted-everything.md) - I've been reading through RSS feeds since 2007. Every platform built on top of the format has disappointed me, but the format itself never has.
- [Beginner Again](https://gcasqueiro.com/beginner-again.md) - There is a version of this story that is clean and motivating. This is not that version, this is the one with imposter syndrome, slow progress, and the strange feeling of being experienced and a complete beginner at the same time.
- [Searching For The Tool That Holds My Thinking Together](https://gcasqueiro.com/searching-for-the-tool-that-holds-my-thinking-together.md) - Or at least, the one that's holding it together right now.
- [AI as Collaborator: Why I'm Skipping the Bill and Going Local](https://gcasqueiro.com/ai-as-collaborator-why-im-skipping-the-bill-and-going-local.md) - AI coding tools are genuinely impressive. But between Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and whatever Google launches next, the subscriptions stack up fast. Here's why I'm heading in the opposite direction.
- [The Unglamorous Part](https://gcasqueiro.com/the-unglamorous-part.md) - Two weeks of client work, a JavaScript course I've barely started, and nothing to show for it. This is what building in public actually looks like most of the time.
- [Why I Chose Ghost (And Why I Keep Choosing It)](https://gcasqueiro.com/why-i-chose-ghost-and-why-i-keep-choosing-it.md) - I've been following Ghost for more than 10 years. Tried (and failed) to launch with it twice, and I'm still here. This is why (for me) Ghost keeps winning over Substack, Medium, and Beehiiv - even with its flaws.
- [Starting with a Clean Slate](https://gcasqueiro.com/starting-with-a-clean-slate.md) - Pop OS was great for Blender. Windows 11 is a distracting mess. I needed something clean and focused for learning to code.
- [Starting fresh](https://gcasqueiro.com/starting-fresh.md) - After 15 years in architecture, I'm returning to coding at 42, something I left in 2004. This blog tracks my journey: progress, open-source builds, mistakes, and career pivot reflections. No strict plans, just following the energy.

## Optional
- [RSS Feed](https://gcasqueiro.com/rss/)
- [Sitemap](https://gcasqueiro.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Full content of pages and posts](https://gcasqueiro.com/llms-full.txt)