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Articles & Dev Guides

Write-ups from things I've actually built and broken — desktop AI assistants, game mod loaders, and shipping a portfolio site solo. No fluff, just what worked, what didn't, and why.

AI / Desktop Engineering

Building a Desktop AI Assistant with PyQt6: Architecture, Pitfalls, and Fixes

How I structured JDR AI's embedded browser, voice loop, and file indexing — and the COM initialization, WebEngine teardown, and PyInstaller bugs that almost sank it.

~9 min read
Game Modding

Sider Mod Loader for Football Life 2026: A Practical Configuration Guide

A field guide to sider.ini — avoiding duplicate module conflicts, ordering load priority correctly, and mapping stadiums to national teams without crashes.

~8 min read
Web Deployment

Deploying a Portfolio Site with Cloudflare Pages and GitHub: A Practical Workflow

The actual git → build → deploy pipeline I use for janidesh.pages.dev, plus the repo-size and asset-organization mistakes that slowed me down early on.

~7 min read