PortalArchive
A personal writing space for documenting old web culture, practical software notes, experiments, and the small artifacts worth preserving.
This site is built to feel like a classic portal while still giving the author modern tools: drafts, Markdown, scheduling, media reuse, tags, series, and local analytics.
My First Look at the OpenAI API and Prompt Engineering
A beginner's first exploration of using OpenAI models through the API, understanding Responses API calls, model selection, instructions and message roles, prompt engineering, prompt structure, caching, few-shot learning, context windows, and the differences between reasoning and GPT models.
Under the Web #00 - Why I'm Learning How the Internet Actually Works
I can deploy containers and configure APIs, but I don't actually understand how the internet works. Under the Web is a long-form learning series where I'm building genuine mental models of networking, internet fundamentals, and web architecture — starting from confused and ending with understanding. No textbook summaries, no pretending to be an expert. Just hands-on learning, real experiments, and honest documentation.