Technical writing on systems, tooling, and the craft of code.
Stories from life away from the screen.
A practical walkthrough of blue-green deployments on a single VPS. No Kubernetes required. Just Compose, Nginx, and a bit of shell scripting that would make your ops team uncomfortable.
Read post →Fourteen services scattered across three VPS instances, each with its own .env file managed by "whoever deployed it last." Here's how I centralized secrets without losing my mind.
Read post →After three failed attempts at monorepo setups, I found a pattern using Turborepo and pnpm workspaces that survives past the five-developer threshold without becoming a build-time nightmare.
Read post →First impressions from someone who has spent two decades in dynamic languages. The borrow checker is not your enemy; your assumptions about memory are.
Read post →Event sourcing sounded elegant in the architecture meeting. Six months later, with 40 million events and a projection pipeline that occasionally disagreed with reality, here is what I learned.
Read post →Before you spin up another VPN or expose another port, consider whether a simple SSH tunnel solves the problem in thirty seconds flat.
Read post →There is a specific frequency at which a child's laughter reaches through noise-cancelling headphones. I have confirmed this experimentally.
Read story →Woodworking is like software: the first version ships with bugs, the second version is over-engineered, and the third version is the one your spouse finally approves.
Read story →My kid now says things like "the seasoning is a bit restrained, Dad" and I am not sure whether to be proud or offended.
Read story →Every January I write a list. Every March I find it under a coffee cup. This year I am publishing it so the internet can hold me accountable.
Read story →We covered 1.3 miles in four hours. We found six interesting rocks, two frogs, and one existential question about why mountains exist.
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