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Long-form writing on engineering, systems design, tooling, and the craft of building software.

Feb 15, 2026

Building Resilient Systems in Production

Lessons from running distributed systems at scale — graceful degradation, circuit breakers, and the art of failing well.

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Feb 1, 2026

Why Developer Experience Is a Feature

DX isn't a luxury — it's a force multiplier. How investing in tooling, documentation, and workflow pays dividends across the entire engineering org.

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Jan 18, 2026

A Terminal-Driven Development Workflow

My setup for staying in flow — Neovim, tmux, and a handful of CLI tools that keep context-switching to a minimum.

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All Systems Operational

Software engineer building resilient systems and clean interfaces.

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