A nurse learning to build

From
bedside to
build.

I’m a critical care nurse learning software engineering, programming, and AI. This is my public learning journal: what I’m studying, trying, and building along the way.

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Learning through practice

Projects & experiments.

This site is a working project. I’ll share more experiments here as I learn.

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Simpyll

A personal website, technical blog, and evolving software engineering portfolio documenting my work, experiments, and transition into software development.

ReactTypeScriptViteTailwind CSSMDXGitHub ActionsNotion API

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AI Engineering

An ongoing exploration of AI engineering, software development, automation, intelligent applications, and practical engineering workflows. An active learning initiative.

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Notes from the learning process

Learning journal.

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Oct 23, 2026

Ideas

A Hospital Is the Most Complicated Computer I've Ever Used

What more than a decade in critical care taught me about software, systems, and the humans holding everything together.

Oct 23, 2026

Field Notes

Starting Over Without Starting From Zero

On learning something new after spending years getting good at something else.

Oct 22, 2026

Engineering

The Art of Reading Code: Inside Simpyll’s New Journal Experience

A hands-on tour of code highlighting, responsive tables, callouts, figures, disclosures, footnotes, and the details that make technical writing a pleasure to read.

Healthcare × technology

About.

I know the bedside. I’m learning the tools to build beyond it.

I’m David Becker, a critical care registered nurse in the Tulsa area. Alongside graduate nursing education, I’m learning software engineering and AI, bringing a clinical perspective to the tools I build and the questions I explore.

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Frombedside tobuild.