Ask-Me portfolio
Full-stack developer building calm interfaces, self-hosted systems, and portfolio pages that answer back.
Ask-Me
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Full-stack developer in Kuala Lumpur, building pragmatic systems across backend, infra, and frontend. I like self-hosting, Docker, and design-conscious interfaces — and I care just as much about how the work feels as how it ships.
Ruby
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Bash
Node.js
LangChain
Langfuse
Ollama
Hugging Face
OpenRouter
Next.js
Ruby on Rails
Tailwind CSS
Docker
Proxmox
Unraid
AWS
Git
Terraform
PostgreSQL
MySQL
SQLite
Redis
MongoDB
A fun little app that uses segment anything to cut people and objects out of images to use as stickers!
PythonAWSDocker
PytorchTerraformReact
The site you're on right now: an LLM composes each answer as a JSON spec rendered from a component catalog, over a WebGL shader backdrop.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
An opensource project that allows users to pit two LLMs against each other and see how they compare
ReactPythonDockerAWSOllama
Search your favourite tune and watch its album cover's colour palette take over the page — the same palette trick now recolouring this site's hero dither.
TypeScriptReactNode.js
I built a repeatable shootout for the portfolio's Story-generation models. It sends five fixed portfolio questions to each model through the production plan generation, one JSON-repair retry, and scene-composition pipeline, then applies the same Zod validators as the live app, checking schema shape and evidence references against a locked corpus vocabulary. It records first-try and after-repair plan validity, scene validity, cross-scene repetition using body-token Jaccard similarity, banned filler phrases, per-Story latency, token use, and estimated cost. The cases exercise malformed JSON, invalid project slugs, duplicate Scene Patterns, and out-of-vocabulary evidence references; semantic grounding is judged separately by a blinded manual review of the finalists. In July 2026 I ran seven OpenRouter models; that review selected GLM-5.2, which is now the application default.
Next.jsTypeScript
Zod
Debian
Ubuntu
WSL2
Unraid
I have learned CAD design and use a variety of 3D printing methods and techniques to make my products work for different use cases. Namely in FDM printing at the moment, but with very high end materials and machines.
The tech diary of Noah Rijkaard, a Full-stack software engineer working out of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, it comprises of tutorials, thoughts and existential crises.
Open blogGot a project, a role, or just a question about anything on this page? My inbox is open and I actually reply — pick whichever door you like.
The fastest way to reach me — say hi, pitch an idea, ask anything.
[email protected]Side projects, experiments, and the code behind this very site.
github.com/OriginalByteMeThe professional trail — roles, history, and a DM inbox I check.
www.linkedin.com/in/noah-rijkaard/Tutorials, tinkering notes, and the occasional existential crisis.
blog.noahrijkaard.com
