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I design reliable software across web, mobile, and cloud. Explore the latest insights, engineering notes, and a focused portfolio of production work.
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Blog
Latest writing
01
Your Site Looks Fine — Until It Loads on a Phone
Most slow sites aren't badly built — they just do too much work to load. This guide walks the critical rendering path step by step, then fixes the four things Lighthouse always flags: CSS, images, JavaScript, and fonts. Includes the delivery layer (CDN, HTTP/3, Brotli, caching) and how to stop performance from eroding after you fix it.
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02
How a 4-Day-Old Account Reaches 10 Million Strangers: Inside Instagram's Recommendation System
This week a 4-day-old account crossed 10 million followers and overtook a major political party. The follower count is the headline, but the real story is the architecture underneath. We break down how Instagram went from a chronological photo stream to a four-stage recommendation funnel — fan-out, two-tower retrieval, multi-stage ranking, and cold start — and what every backend engineer can steal from it.
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03
ReBAC Explained: How GitHub Decides Who Can Touch Your Repo
Roles work until your app grows hierarchies, then you drown in role explosion and token bloat. Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) answers 'can this user do this?' by walking a graph of relationships instead. This post explains ReBAC using GitHub's permission model as the main example, then covers Google Zanzibar — which manages over 2 trillion relationship tuples at 10 million queries per second.
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LinkedIn highlights
LinkedIn
01
Nvidia Just Made AI Agents Enterprise-Ready. Here's What Actually Happened.
Jensen Huang called OpenClaw 'the most important software release, probably ever' — comparing it to Linux, HTML, and Kubernetes in the same breath. Bold claim. But after digging into what Nvidia actually built around it, I think he might be right.
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02
5 Brutal Truths Nobody Taught Me About Programming (But Should Have)
I've been writing code for years. Read the books. Studied the patterns. Nailed the algorithms. And yet — the lessons that actually made me a better developer? None of them came from a textbook. Every single one came from something breaking, a user doing something unexpected, or me staring at a screen at midnight wondering where it all went wrong.
LinkedIn
03
The Software Factory Will Eat Your Job — Unless You Learn to Run It
A structural look at what the Nifty IT crash, StrongDM's AI experiment, and Big Tech's own numbers reveal about where engineering is actually headed.
Video
YouTube videos
May 2, 2024
Build a Blog Website with Laravel & Filament in 13 Minutes! (SEO Ready)
Quickly build an SEO-ready blog using Laravel and Filament with a clean, practical walkthrough.
April 26, 2024
Level Up Your Forms: Interactive Status Toggles with FilamentPHP forms
Add interactive status toggles to your FilamentPHP forms to improve UX and data handling.
March 21, 2024
Create a Kanban Board in Laravel with Filament PHP
Build a functional Kanban board inside a Laravel app using Filament PHP components.
Tools
Developer utilities
URL Encoder/Decoder
Encode and decode URLs with ease.
JSON Validator
Validate and pretty-print JSON data instantly.
Text Diff
Compare two text blocks and highlight differences.
JWT Tool
Encode and decode JSON Web Tokens.
UUID Generator
Generate random UUIDs (v4) in bulk.
Password Generator
Generate secure passwords with customizable options.
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