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Hasil

Engineer who writes about software, side-projects, and the slow weird parts of building things at night.

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2026-05-18 · general

When neighborhoods go quiet

What feels like silence in urban India may be something larger: the slow reversal of a world where children were once economically necessary, and parenthood is now a deliberate, high-cost choice.

#long-form #india #society
9 min
2026-05-11 · programming

How I added custom-designed blog layouts to a Webflow CMS blog

A practical way to keep a Webflow CMS blog intact while allowing selected posts to use fully custom editorial layouts.

#webflow #cms #frontend
8 min
2026-04-28 · programming

Shipping a write-ahead log in three evenings

The naive version is forty lines. The version that survives a power-cut is six hundred. Here is what changed between them, and the moment I almost gave up.

#rust #postgres #distributed
11 min
2026-04-14 · programming

Observability is just paranoia with graphs

Why I instrument everything, even the parts that "obviously cannot fail." A field guide to wiring tracing into a small system without losing your weekend.

#observability #tooling
9 min
2026-04-07 · general

On keeping a paper notebook in the year 2026

I tried six different note-taking systems in twelve months. This is what stuck, and why ink on dead trees still beats every plain-text vault I built.

#long-form
6 min
2026-03-30 · programming

WASM as a plugin runtime — what nobody warns you about

The pitch is great. The reality involves four layers of ABI, two flavors of memory, and exactly one segfault you will spend a Saturday on.

#wasm #rust #tooling
14 min
2026-03-22 · stories

A letter to the machine

Found in a notebook, undated. The author is unknown. The recipient never replied.

#fiction #short
4 min
2026-03-14 · programming

Compilers are just string manipulation with anxiety

Building a tiny language for fun, learning what a parser actually is, and discovering that the hard part was never the parser.

#compilers #rust
16 min
2026-03-06 · general

Walking as a debugger

Why I solve more bugs at 6km/h than I ever do at the keyboard. A short defense of the long walk as a professional tool.

#long-form
5 min