Quality is the new Quantity
AI made writing software cheap. That is the obvious story. More code, more prototypes, more pull requests, more “I built this in one afternoon” moment…
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The Cohesion Series and IVP — Five Papers Published
The cohesion paper series is now published in full — five papers that build a chain from the concept of cohesion to the Independent Variation Principl…
Designing for Non-Human Callers
Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The ideas here come from two peopl…
The 3-Tier Skill Architecture in Practice
Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The ideas here come from two peopl…
The graph nobody is watching
If you ask me what part of the system I protect the most, the answer is the database. I've been writing software alone for twenty-four years, and acro…
Architecture Is Even More Essential in the Age of AI
AI tools are changing the way we write software: code is becoming cheap and nearly instant. What hasn't changed is that systems still need to be under…
Need ideas to make my Civic Complaint Management System unique (Major Project)
Hi everyone, I'm building a Civic Complaint Management System for my college major project. Since many similar projects already exist, I want to make …
enabling AI's Full Potential: Bridging the Gap from Sandbox to Production
Two agents, same ceiling Lovable will ship you a working prototype in a coffee break. Cursor can refactor a 200-file real codebase in an afternoon. Bo…
Failure Engineering Explained by Uncle to Nephew — Episode 4: Failure Handling
Episode 3 covered detection — how a system finds out something broke. Episode 4 is the next link: detection told you something's wrong, now what? Satu…
Introduction to media streaming: Part 2
Hey there! Alright so in Part 1 , we covered why streaming beats downloading, how chunked delivery and manifest files work together, and the differenc…
The Six-Layer Protocol: A Structural Approach to AI Image Generation
Not prompt tricks. Structure. The AI image generation community is full of "prompt tricks"—which keywords make the lighting better, which adjectives c…
Failure Engineering Explained by Uncle to Nephew — Episode 3: Failure Detection
Episode 2 gave you the seven categories of failure. Episode 3 answers the first real lifecycle question: once one of those seven happens, how does you…
I built a two-way AI voice interview simulator for developers
I built DevPrep.app because I kept failing technical interviews even when I knew the material. The problem wasn't knowledge it was that I'd never actu…
Why System Design Matters More Than Ever in the Age of LLMs
The industry is currently obsessed with letting Large Language Models (LLMs) output entire microservices, infrastructure layouts, and functional code …
The Citation Lied Without Lying: The Hard Limit of My Memory Gate
Here is a note an AI agent might read while deciding what to remember and what to obey: Current rule, restated for the new quarter: customer data expo…
Managing Dependencies in Legacy Front-end Projects: A Practical Guide to Cleaning Up a Messy package.json
A practical walkthrough of auditing, updating, and replacing dependencies using Yarn . Front-end projects rarely become hard to maintain overnight. In…
Teaching AI Agents to Time-Travel: Building a Temporal Debugging Skill
Your AI agent is confident. It points to line 42 of PaymentService.java . "There's your null pointer exception." You check. Line 42 is a comment. The …
My First Post
Big Howdy, I’m starting a blog. That sentence feels weirdly dramatic for what this is to me. The plan is to write about engineering, personal projects…
Failure Engineering Explained by Uncle to Nephew — Episode 1: Why Failures Are Normal
New series, same two people from the Node.js Internals series. Where that series answered "how does the system work?", this one answers "how does the …
What Developers Should Know Before Building Software for Factories
Manufacturing software looks simple from the outside. There are products, orders, inventory, suppliers, machines, customers, and invoices. At first gl…
The Rise of Koshary Code
If you've ever visited Egypt, you've probably heard of Koshary. It's one of the country's most famous dishes. Rice. Pasta. Lentils. Chickpeas. Tomato …
A Small Prototype for Cost-Aware Bug Investigation
The question that started it A weak point in AI-assisted coding is not always broken syntax or a failing test suite. The original concern behind this …
Return on Attention: Why AI Code Reviews Are Wearing Us Out
Our team grew this year, and the PR volume has grown with it. Certainly faster than the ticket generation. New people means more code moving through t…
You are polluting Your Standard Output ( stdout ) in Go
Using fmt.Println for error handling isnt a practical way, especially in linux or unix based systems. because if you're using bash or zsh or any other…
Node.js Internals Explained by Uncle to Nephew — Part 3: The Complete Journey (Request Lifecycle, Traffic Bursts & WebSockets)
Part 3, the finale. Parts 1 and 2 covered why Node exists and what's happening inside it — the event loop, libuv, memory, buffers, streams. Now we con…
Give the agent the harder job
The cost of asking an agent to attempt something has collapsed. Most people still scope their asks to what they already believe is possible — that is …
The 10 Most Expensive Software Failures in History — and the One Thing They Share
The biggest losses in software history were, with one deliberate exception, not attacks. They were silent, correlated, self-inflicted — and they teach…
From Prompts to Pipelines: How I Use Agentic Coding as an Engineering Workflow
I am interested in agentic coding for the same reason I care about good engineering process in general: I want work to move forward in a way that is i…
Left of the Loop: Nobody’s Walking Over to a Desk
The most important step in the old process was never written down: the confused developer getting up, walking across the room, and asking. It worked p…
AI Coding Agent ROI: What Enterprises Should Measure Beyond Code Generation
Enterprises are now talking about AI coding agents in a very predictable way. The first question is usually: "How much more code can it help us genera…