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Building scalable web apps & sharing what I learn along the way. Six years shipping production systems in TypeScript, Go and Postgres — currently leading payments work at a remote fintech from Nairobi.
Tutorials, engineering notes, and career lessons.
Stop sprinkling `any` across your fetch calls. Here's the small, boring pattern I use on every production app to keep server data honest.
Sep 12, 2026 · 9 min read
A 2.4s query became 11ms after one index. Here's how I reason about B-tree, partial, composite, and GIN indexes now.
Aug 28, 2026 · 11 min read
Nobody gets promoted for working weekends. What actually moved the needle for me was writing things down and saying no more often.
Aug 4, 2026 · 7 min read
Buffering a 2GB upload into memory is a great way to meet your on-call rotation. Streams fix it in about thirty lines.
Jul 19, 2026 · 8 min read
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