A teardown of a small private app that turns phone photos of documents — many handwritten — into structured records. The model drafts, a human approves, and most of the engineering is in everything around the model.
Every technology shift in my career rewarded the people who got hands-on early. AI is the biggest shift yet — and it's collapsing the line between the people who think, design, and build. Notes from sixteen years in tech and a year of building with AI.
The demo where an agent writes SQL from plain English is magic. The production version is a knife fight with a query dialect that hates you. Notes from building one for real.
Honest take from someone building with these tools daily. A historical lens (steel plows, spreadsheets, ATMs), the actual numbers, and what's going away versus what's emerging.
What the Cloudflare migration actually cost, what it fixed, and the AWS pieces I kept. A retrospective, not a hypothetical.
A real-world case study of designing, debugging, and hardening a Cloudflare-based edge architecture using DNS, Workers, Tunnel, and Zero Trust.
How I built a production-grade personal site for $1/month using Next.js, AWS serverless, and Cloudflare. Complete architecture breakdown and cost analysis.
A practical look at clean rooms beyond the marketing hype. What problems do they solve, and when should you actually use them?
Teams treat MMM and MTA as alternatives. They're not — they answer different questions. Here's how to use them together.
How I built a personal cricket analytics system using S3, Lambda, and QuickSight to track my batting performance.