Hasil
Engineer who writes about software, side-projects, and the slow weird parts of building things at night.
Curious case of Redis - the single threaded Mandela effect
Everyone knows Redis is single-threaded. They are wrong, but they are not completely wrong, and that is the annoying part.
Zero-JS by default, interactive when needed
Astro ships no JavaScript by default. Most people add React immediately. I did not, and it turns out a blog is just documents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On keeping a paper notebook in 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.
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.
Code Was Always Cheap (Part 2)
AI fixed the building problem. It did not fix the being noticed problem. That gap is where most side projects quietly die.
Code Was Always Cheap
AI did not suddenly make code cheap. Building was always the easier part. The hard part was getting people to care.