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.

Explicit states and guarded transitions make workflows visible, testable, and recoverable under retries, concurrency, and external failures.

How I use focused specifications, small changes, and deliberate validation when working with coding agents.

A socio-technical design exploration of updating an address once without ignoring consent, recovery, governance, and propagation failures.

Examining the Redis internal data structure and what makes it faster.

Deep dive into Redis performance secrets: in-memory architecture, single-threaded event loop, and RESP protocol. Includes benchmarks, real-world examples from Uber and Twitter, and production optimization tips. Part 1 of 6-part Redis series.

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.

Real startup autopsy revealing how over-engineering and premature optimization destroyed a promising CRM startup. Learn critical lessons about product-market fit vs perfect architecture, MVP development, and building for customers not engineering egos.

A practical case study of build-time CSP hashes, content sanitization, rollout, and the limitations of meta-delivered policies.

Complete guide to building a personal blog with Astro SSG, Cloudflare deployment, and Telegram bot integration. Learn about static site generation, automated content management, and turning private notes into shareable knowledge.