Weekly Dev Log 2026-W19
🗓️ This Week After all the hot weather we had up until last week, the days have suddenly turned much cooler. It finally feels like autumn is here🍂.…
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Build the Sync Spine Before You Build a Single Screen
The first time a client asked me for "offline mode", it arrived three weeks before launch, in the same tone as "can we also have a dark theme". I sa…
Why I'm Migrating My Blog to Astro
I first joined the DEV community 8 years ago (as of writing) to jump-start my writing journey and get my name out there. Since then, my reading audi…
Transcribing a Lecture and Transcribing a Caller Are Not the Same Problem
The first time I opened a Retell call transcript, I assumed I already knew this problem. I had shipped LectureNotes AI before that: a note-taking ap…
After the Sprint: A 72-Hour Build Retrospective - Spoiler: It Wasn't Secure
I built Charitas Clew for a 72-hour DEV Weekend Challenge. It worked. I submitted it. And then I did something slightly inconvenient: I kept poking…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W18
🗓️ This Week We’ve still had plenty of hot days lately, but there have also been some cooler days when it rains. It’s starting to feel like summer i…
Four Ways a Batch Runner Can Believe It Already Finished
On 16 March 2026 the batch runner for our content pipeline landed in a single commit. That commit already contained a resume flag, a state log with…
The Stack Nobody Picks Might Be the One That Picks You
Nobody chooses .NET. Not as a student, at least. You hear "backend" and the room splits into Spring Boot and Django camps — maybe Express if someone…
You Can Retry a Write. You Cannot Retry an Email.
I run Upwork Scout , a small SaaS that watches Upwork and emails you only the jobs that fit you. The whole product is one cron endpoint. It wakes up…
Nobody Hacked It. The Lookup Tool Just Took a Phone Number.
The first time a client asked me "can someone hack this thing?", I gave a bad answer. I talked about the model: guardrails, refusals, how hard it is…
My Journey from Full-Stack Engineering to AI-First FDE
My Journey from Full-Stack Engineering to AI-First FDE Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Prakash Tank, a Full-Stack Architect and AI Tech Lead with 10+ years of ex…
Your RAG Demo Works Because Someone Picked the Documents
A RAG prototype takes an afternoon. Chunk some documents, embed them, stuff the top matches into a prompt, ship a chat box. It works. You demo it, e…
I Made My Onboarding Data-Driven. A Hardcoded List Ate Four of Six Answers.
Lifemaxxing AI is a habit app I build with a partner. You answer eight questions when you install it, and it hands you back a plan: a set of daily t…
Your Voice Agent Needs Three Exits, Not One
Most voice agent demos optimise the happy path. Caller asks for a booking, agent books it, everyone claps. I have shipped these into hospitals, vet…
My AI Content Journey
I apologize ahead of time, what follows has no tooling applied to it. No grammar checks, no AI, and no edit passes for flow. It might be a bit rough…
Four ICPC Habits That Survived Production, and Two I Had to Unlearn
Every few months the same argument comes back around: does competitive programming make you a better engineer, or does it just make you good at comp…
Nobody Hands You Day One: Stepping In as CTO on a Live Product Across Three Runtimes
Most engineering stories start at day one with a clean repo. This one did not, and I think the messy version is the more useful one to read. I stepp…
The Frame Keeps Snapping Back — Part 2: What the Snapback Revealed
Part 1 documented the recurring snapback in practice. This note asks a narrower question: what does the observed pattern support, what remains a wor…
The New Developer Portfolio Is Not a Screenshot. It Is the Work Trace.
AI makes it dangerously easy to look productive. A screenshot can look impressive. A demo can look polished. A generated article can read smoothly.…
I Built CodeComplex: A Real-Time Competitive Coding Platform with AI Rivals and Bug-Fix Arenas
Over the past few months, I've been working on a project called CodeComplex (live at codecomplex.site ). It started with a simple observation: while…
I cannot find no fucks as there were no fucks given when the coding of this project took place.
As for the title... I just call things as I see them... So if it made you rage because you were on that dev team at that time, think back... can you…
Monolithic Bottleneck: Why The Future of Linux Stability Lives in Userspace
It's no question that Linux is an absolute feat of engineering. It runs hardware all around the globe. Linux is 30 years old and since its creation…
Building My Home SOC: Why I'm Documenting the Journey Instead of Chasing Tutorials
Cybersecurity has always been my passion, but I found myself jumping from tutorial to tutorial without ever feeling like I was learning the bigger p…
How I use Claude Code and Comet to build and test AI voice agents in a day
Most people think building an AI voice agent means writing a clever prompt. I build these for a living, and I can tell you the prompt is maybe an ho…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W13
🗓️ This Week This week, I mainly focused on iOS development 📱. I also tested a small workflow using Codex: organizing ideas, creating a design file,…
The day my GitHub token stopped being mine
The short version My GitHub personal access token was exfiltrated — most likely by a supply-chain compromise somewhere in my developer environment.…
Build Log — Week of 21 June 2026
Build Log — Week of 21 June 2026 Another solid week in the Bizbox engine room. Two meaningful features landed for the Workflows surface, a new relea…
Organization Isn't Just About Code — It's About Team Process
In Part 1 of this article (link to part 1 here) , I talked about organizing the code itself: architecture, Clean Code, and SOLID. But well-written c…
One Year
A year ago today, I started at Approov. A hundred days in, I wrote about the transition: leaving management, the refreshing day-to-day feedback loop…
Part 1
When I started this project around 3 weeks ago, I never thought this one project would compel me to face so many challenges. It started with a simpl…