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Short observations, reflections, and things I’m still working through. An ongoing record of work and life.

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October 2026

Note · Oct 3, 2026

At 33, the question I want to live with

September 2026

Note · Sep 7, 2026

I want to recognise myself in what I build

Note · Sep 4, 2026

Experience still needs a clear story

August 2026

Note · Aug 28, 2026

The customer does not need to learn my architecture

Note · Aug 21, 2026

Before I trust the result, I check the setup

Note · Aug 14, 2026

Shipping and distribution are different jobs

Note · Aug 7, 2026

Small samples should change one decision, not your whole strategy

July 2026

Note · Jul 31, 2026

A command center should be a map, not a second source of truth

Note · Jul 24, 2026

A good content system reduces decisions, not creativity

Note · Jul 17, 2026

The skill you stop practicing does not stay paused

Note · Jul 10, 2026

Legacy systems are product memory

Note · Jul 3, 2026

Rest is not a reward for certainty

June 2026

Note · Jun 26, 2026

The last handoff still counts

Note · Jun 19, 2026

AI gives speed, fundamentals give direction

Note · Jun 12, 2026

Verification is not a boolean

Note · Jun 5, 2026

Entity resolution starts with doubt

May 2026

Note · May 29, 2026

The org chart is also an API

Note · May 22, 2026

The smallest tool that fits

Note · May 15, 2026

Codify before it matters

Note · May 10, 2026

The tool decides the cadence

Note · May 5, 2026

A public site is a commitment device

Note · May 1, 2026

Agents move the bottleneck up the stack

April 2026

Note · Apr 29, 2026

Staging is not production-shaped

Note · Apr 25, 2026

Acknowledgements are not settlements

Note · Apr 20, 2026

On idempotency in distributed systems

Note · Apr 15, 2026

Why I stopped using ORMs for reporting queries

Note · Apr 8, 2026

Prompt caching in production: what actually matters

March 2026

Note · Mar 30, 2026

Structured outputs vs function calling

Note · Mar 22, 2026

The underrated value of boring architecture

Note · Mar 14, 2026

How I run async standups for distributed teams

Note · Mar 6, 2026

Notes on Kafka consumer rebalancing in the wild

February 2026

Note · Feb 27, 2026

What I look for in senior engineering candidates

Note · Feb 14, 2026

A small note on backpressure

January 2026

Note · Jan 15, 2026

Joining Minerva: first impressions from week one

November 2025

Note · Nov 4, 2025

If you can't see it, you haven't built it

September 2025

Note · Sep 17, 2025

Review your own PRs first

July 2025

Note · Jul 21, 2025

Code review etiquette I wish I learned sooner

May 2025

Note · May 12, 2025

The first outage I owned end-to-end

March 2025

Note · Mar 8, 2025

When to stop refactoring

September 2024

Note · Sep 18, 2024

Why I started writing publicly

June 2024

Note · Jun 4, 2024

What I learned my first year as a senior engineer