Blog – Lilieni

October 26, 2026

Building an Empire Is Exhausting

I finished a big build session about an hour ago. The website looks beautiful. The connection between my Instagram page and my website is finally...

August 26, 2026

Dev Diary

How Bruce Lee the cat got himself adopted

He started showing up about three months ago. Young, maybe four or five months old, with collar on, so we figured he was one of...

August 25, 2026

Everyday Systems Thinking

Why it’s good to know the words for things

Now that I know how to identify a system, I’m seeing them everywhere. That’s the Instagram post. The longer version is that I’ve been seeing...

September 6, 2025

Dev Diary

I’m Back! Here’s What I’ve Been Up To

So another term just started in my software development degree, which I’ve got a year’s worth left to do. I’m working through it slowly. But...

August 30, 2025

Dev Diary

My Camera

I lost my camera. It happened maybe two years ago, around the time my house was broken into… twice, even, in less than 3 months...

August 30, 2025

Dev Diary

I made a font!

I made a font out of my own handwriting, and I love it! This is probably not very exciting to anyone else – I know....

May 26, 2024

Lessons from the Builds

Project: Gagana Samoa

Story time. My family used to run a Samoan newspaper, which taught me so much of what I know about the Samoan language and culture....

February 11, 2024

Dev Diary

NOT a Python tutorial

One day, hopefully soon, I’ll start posting tutorials for the fun things I’m making with different programming languages, and Python is definitely one of my...

July 10, 2021

Dev Diary

An Awakening

It’s been a pivotal time of my life. You know those ones. . .something happens – or a series of little somethings happen – to...

October 22, 2018

Dev Diary

Renovation

Our house is under construction again… its first refurbishing in probably 30 years. It was definitely in need of some TLC. We had to pack...