A collection of notes, essays, and experiments grown in public. Not polished articles — living documents that evolve over time.
Framer Motion + react-rnd both want to write to the same `transform` property. The result is a window-drag jitter that takes a session to debug. Here is the bug, the diagnosis, and the structural fix.
Most developer portfolios are a hero, three project cards, and a contact link. I wanted to ask: what if the portfolio itself was a small product? Here is why I built a fake operating system on top of mine, and the three engineering decisions worth defending.
Hospitality platforms in East Africa underserve small operators. This is the long-form story behind a multi-tenant SaaS I built solo — schema decisions, M-Pesa surprises, and what shipping a security-tested PWA actually takes.
Why I wrote my own SQL lexer, recursive-descent parser, and B-Tree index instead of leaning on a library — and what I would do differently next time.
During an Applied AI coding challenge I needed graceful free-tier rate-limit handling. Here is the round-robin rotation engine I shipped — and why it is now slated to become a small open-source library.