A collection of essays and observations on the things that matter.
I was deep in a refactor — moving files, updating imports, tweaking types. Flow state. Then I had to stop and write a commit message. "What did I even change? Was it 'refactor' or...
People imagine payments are “just” clicking a button. In reality, a payment system is a small army of components working together under tight compliance rules, strict latency requirements, and...
If you’ve been working with Node.js and sometimes wonder “Why does my Promise run before my setTimeout?”, or “Why did this async callback execute earlier than I expected?” — it’s all thanks to the...
Why This MattersGPT-5 is more sensitive than past models to how you ask.The way you write the prompt — tone, structure, and clarity — can make or break the quality of the answer.1. Core Rules...
The Python tooling ecosystem has been a mess for years. pip is slow, poetry is bloated, pipenv is abandoned, and pyenv barely works on Windows. Enter uv — a single Rust binary that's about to make...
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love O(n)Remember that smug feeling when you learned about Big O notation? When you could finally look at someone using array.includes() and think "pfft, O(n)...