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Software, systems, and learning in public.
Long-form ideas, practical notes, and experiments from a developer who still likes finding out how things work.
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All recent postsSenior Developer Thoughts
Thoughts on experience, judgement, mentoring, AI-assisted writing, and what seniority really means.
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A concise note about cached Docker layers and making development builds faster.
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More problem solving on LeetCode
A closer look at how I approach LeetCode problems, the patterns worth learning, and what deliberate practice teaches me about competitive programming.
Neovim, Avante, and AI agents
How Neovim, Avante, Herdr, and WezTerm fit together in my AI-assisted development workflow, and where agents are genuinely useful.
Building WMS-VT
More about WMS-VT as a product: the problems behind it, the technical decisions involved, and what I am learning while building it.
MySQL2PGSQL in Rust
Why MySQL2PGSQL exists, how Rust shapes its implementation, and lessons from developing the project in the open.