Code & Life — A Developer's Journal
Every article I've published since 2019, spanning software engineering deep-dives, personal essays, travel notes, and the occasional existential tangent.
After eighteen months of trial and error, a complete teardown, and one existential crisis about database schemas, I finally shipped a multi-tenant architecture that doesn't make me lose sleep.
What running behind a wobbling bicycle taught me about letting go.
You don't need Kubernetes. Here's my entire production deployment pipeline running on hardware cheaper than a latte.
A letter to the junior dev I used to be, full of advice he probably wouldn't listen to anyway.
I benchmarked optional chaining vs. explicit null checks in a tight loop. The results surprised me.
Cobblestone streets, pasteis de nata, and the strange peace of being unreachable.
Domain modeling with the type system instead of runtime checks.
I approached breakfast like a software problem. Turns out buttermilk is the killer feature.
A case for the modular monolith, and why keeping things together is sometimes the bravest choice.
My kids wanted a treehouse. I wanted to prove I could build something without a compiler.
One bad WHERE clause away from a data breach. Here's how to do multi-tenant security properly.
Four rewrites of the same project. React, Vue, Svelte, Elm. The framework was never the problem.