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Notes on web development, tools, and things I am learning along the way.
Jul 10, 2026 - 8 min read
Why generic models feel wrong on real codebases — and how retrieval, rules, and project memory make AI useful inside your domain.
Jun 1, 2026 - 7 min read
How to use AI to raise the quality of tests and reviews while keeping humans accountable for what ships.
May 8, 2026 - 9 min read
Conceptual patterns for putting large language models behind APIs — when to call them, how to bound them, and how they fit next to traditional business logic.
Apr 2, 2026 - 8 min read
Why prompting is not magic — it is a communication skill that shapes how AI participates in design, implementation, and debugging.
Mar 12, 2026 - 7 min read
A practical guide to adopting AI coding assistants without losing ownership of your architecture, code quality, or learning curve.
Nov 5, 2024 - 7 min read
Expand/contract migrations, dual writes, and backfills — practical patterns for evolving databases in production systems.
Aug 22, 2024 - 8 min read
Cache-aside, TTLs, invalidation, and stampedes — how to place caches in an architecture so speed does not silently corrupt truth.
Jun 18, 2024 - 9 min read
What ACID really buys you, where distributed transactions hurt, and how architects design reliable systems with clearer consistency boundaries.
Apr 3, 2024 - 7 min read
Why schema design should follow how the application reads and writes — and how to avoid both over-normalization and document soup.
Feb 14, 2024 - 8 min read
A practical framework for picking relational, document, key-value, or specialized stores based on access patterns — not hype.
Apr 5, 2023 - 10 min read
Understanding types transformation make typescript so much easier
Mar 16, 2021 - 10 min read
Let's talk about why you should use a React framework instead of just building a regular React application.
Jan 21, 2020 - 10 min read
Fundamental concepts of React.js concentrated part 2
Jan 19, 2020 - 15 min read
Fundamental concepts of React.js concentrated
Dec 25, 2019 - 15 min read
Dec 8, 2019 - 3 min read
Is console log the only thing you use?
Oct 21, 2019 - 2 min read
Why I create my very first blog ever with front-matter!