I was using AI before I had tried to understand the task. Taking regular days away from it exposed gaps in my knowledge and improved the way I use it.

A simple story about mice and men takes on a heavier weight when the "cheese" is the coding work you spent years mastering. No advice here—just reflections from the edge of the AI disruption, left open for you to explore.

How I use focused specifications, reviewable changes, and independent validation when working with coding agents.

How Redis 7.4 stores keys and values using dictionaries, objects, listpacks, skip lists, radix trees, and compact string encodings.

How Redis combines in-memory data, a single-threaded event loop, RESP, and client-side techniques, along with the limits of those design choices.

From waiting weeks for bank remittances to instant 60-second transfers. A personal story about the transformation of global payments, finding ikigai in fintech, and my promotion to Senior Software Engineer II at Wise.

What I learned from a CRM startup that built a complex microservice system before it had paying customers.

How this static site generates CSP hashes at build time, keeps content outside the script trust boundary, and works around the limits of meta delivery.

Why I moved my private notes to a static website, and how the first Astro version evolved into the current publishing build.