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I write about development techniques, project insights, and lessons learned building software.

2026

Third Book. Principles of Building AI Agents by Sam Bhagwat.

A complete chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Sam Bhagwat's guide to AI agents, from model selection and prompting to workflows, RAG, multi-agent systems, evals, and deployment.

Apr 18, 2026

How Not to Be a Team in the AI Age

We gave AI everything. We forgot to keep talking to each other. A reflection on what happens to teams when async and AI replace conversation.

Apr 16, 2026

How Aegis Works: Privacy-First PII Redaction with Go WASM and Chrome Extensions

Building Aegis, a browser extension that redacts sensitive data before it reaches AI chatbots. Covers Go WASM compilation, Chrome offscreen documents, content script interception, and the full architecture of a local-first privacy tool.

Apr 12, 2026

How a Man-in-the-Middle Proxy Actually Works: Building Network Interception from Scratch

Building a MITM proxy in Go to understand HTTP intercession, TLS certificate spoofing, and how to inspect encrypted traffic. Line-by-line breakdown of the concepts that power debugging proxies like Fiddler and Charles.

Apr 5, 2026

Summary of Quantization from the Ground Up by Sam Rose

A practical, interactive breakdown of quantization: float formats, symmetric vs asymmetric mapping, quality loss, and throughput gains.

Apr 2, 2026

Second Book. Minimal Modeling by Alexey Makhotkin.

A complete breakdown of Alexey Makhotkin's Database Design Book — every chapter, every principle, every pattern, from logical models to physical schemas.

Mar 29, 2026

I Started Reading Books. First One Was Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob.

A complete breakdown of Robert C. Martin's Clean Architecture — every chapter, every principle, every pattern, with TypeScript and Go code examples throughout.

Mar 22, 2026

I Implemented Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding to Understand How S3 Actually Works

Every explanation I found either hand-waved it as 'basically RAID' or went straight into Galois field theory. So I implemented it from scratch.

Mar 21, 2026

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Popular Reads

Third Book. Principles of Building AI Agents by Sam Bhagwat.

Apr 18, 2026

How Not to Be a Team in the AI Age

Apr 16, 2026

How Aegis Works: Privacy-First PII Redaction with Go WASM and Chrome Extensions

Apr 12, 2026

How a Man-in-the-Middle Proxy Actually Works: Building Network Interception from Scratch

Apr 5, 2026

Summary of Quantization from the Ground Up by Sam Rose

Apr 2, 2026