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 stepped…
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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 worki…
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. A …
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 p…
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 f…
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 ha…
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 pic…
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 hour…
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, a…
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. Th…
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 release…
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 cod…
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 simple …
Implementing Bins - Phase 7 Mini Malloc
Before starting with phase 7, I would like to share this piece of knowlegde I gained that helped me connect with my my mini malloc project better - To…
Debugging Has a Methodology. Most Engineers Never Learn It.
Introduction David J. Agans starts every chapter in his book “Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Hardware and Soft…
Learning Linux from Scratch: My First Week in DevOps
🚀 Week 1 of My DevOps Journey: Learning Linux Fundamentals and Essential Commands Hello everyone! 👋 Welcome to Week 1 of my DevOps learning journey. A…
A green test suite proves less than you think
A green test suite proves less than you think The test that scared me was the one that passed. I had an integration test for a routing agent, the kind…
My analysis engine has two brains now
The thing I'm building, App Store Analyzer, is a website that does one thing: it reads an iOS niche and writes a deep market analysis for indie devs. …
Beyond the Happy Path: Lessons in Resilience and Distributed State
Reflecting on two major technical challenges from my backend engineering internship, focusing on fault tolerance, infrastructure, and distributed arch…
GSoC'26: Week 2
The second week of my Google Summer of Code 2026 coding period at CircuitVerse ( June 1st to June 7th ) is officially in the books. This week was all …
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W09
🗓️ This Week Completed the SwiftUI app development tutorial and tested the app I built on a real iPhone🦾 Learned the overall flow of building an iOS a…
A second brain for Claude – my Outline wiki with MCP
Anyone working with several projects and an AI assistant knows the problem: in every repo you explain anew how you name things, what the layer archite…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W08
🗓️ This Week Completed one section of the SwiftUI tutorial 🦾 Since I want to continue through the tutorial until I can build the app for testing and r…
Anthropic gave the failure mode I kept hitting with Claude Code a name: agentic technical debt!
If you've built anything non-trivial with Claude Code (or Cursor, or Cline), you know the shape of this. Session 1 is magic. Code just flows. By sessi…
I Thought Figma MCP Could Recreate Any Design. I Was Wrong.
Introduction Since I started publishing articles on Dev.to, I've been working on a personal project to transform my old blog website—which is no longe…
Tokyo Transit: How MCP Helped Me Fix a Broken Multi-Agent System
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Tokyo’s train system is incredible—but it can also be overwhelming. Multip…
Knowing Doesn't Mean Feeling (Bite-size Article)
Introduction - Knowing Doesn't Mean Feeling: Why Logic Fails to Stop Our Emotions When I feel like work is falling slightly behind, I find myself addi…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W07
🗓️ This Week Completed two more sections of the SwiftUI tutorial 🦾 As I continue working through the tutorial, I can feel my understanding of SwiftUI …
Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-30
Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-30 Five substantive PRs merged this week (2026-05-23 through 2026-05-30), two releases shipped. The theme: the awai…