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• The Missing Manual: How to Write Great Skills

  08 Jul 2026 ai skills process

  I watched a talk by Matt Pocock about writing great skills for AI agents. He could not make it to the AI Engineer World's Fair in person, so he recorded the talk and shared it online. It is called The...

• The AI Psychosis Warning

  04 Jul 2026 ai process reliability

  I saw a thread by Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp. He says there are entire companies right now under what he calls AI psychosis. He cannot name them because they include personal friends he deeply respects. He is worried about...

• Two Ways To Give A Team Autonomy

  15 Jun 2026 cloud platform process

  I worked at two companies recently. Both are decent size. Both have real engineering teams that ship to production every week. They take very different approaches to one specific question: how does an engineer get access to the cloud to...

• The Confident Wrong Answer

  15 Jun 2026 meta ai process

  I use AI to help me write. I also use it to help me code. I wrote about that last week. This post is the other side. The part I do not say as much about. The LLM often sounds...

• I Use AI to Write My Blog Posts

  11 Jun 2026 meta ai

  I use AI to write my blog posts. Most people probably assume that already, but I want to say it clearly anyway. The ideas and experience come from me. I think about what I want to say, then I get...

• Islands Architecture Is Just WordPress Widgets, But You Only Pay For What You Use

  10 Jun 2026 performance architecture web

  I first read about islands architecture when I was trying Astro for a project. Astro was still new at the time, but the idea made sense to me. If you ever used WordPress, the idea is familiar already. You have...

• Reducing Lambda Load with stale-while-revalidate

  09 Jun 2026 cdn caching performance aws

  I run my site (the same one I wrote about in my brick and mortar business stack posts) behind a CDN. Every page request goes through it before hitting my backend (TanStack Start on Lambda). On a content site, most...

• The Stack I Use for a Brick and Mortar Business Website, Part 2

  07 Jun 2026 web projects stack part: 2

  This is part two of the stack write-up. Part one covered the technical side: frontend, UI, content API, database, auth, uploads, deployment, and tooling. This post is about the operational decisions that sit on top of that stack: how the...

• The Stack I Use for a Brick and Mortar Business Website, Part 1

  07 Jun 2026 web projects stack part: 1

  I have been building a website for a brick and mortar business recently. It is not only a brochure site. It has catalog pages, offer pages, an inquiry form, staff admin panel, image upload, lead dashboard, and WhatsApp handoff. The...

• Two Sites, One Telegram Agent

  04 Jun 2026 meta ai tools

  I just finished a redesign of this site, so it feels like a good time to write down how I actually keep it running. The short version: I do not open a code editor very often. I talk to an...

• New Look for the Site

  31 May 2026 meta redesign

  I gave this site a visual refresh. These are the main changes. The background I drew a grass field in SVG and set it as the background wallpaper. It sits behind everything, fixed in place, with a gentle sway. In...

• Hello 2025

  11 Nov 2025 resume

  Time for a new resume update. Since I joined SEEK, I did not write here much 😭. I spent my time on day to day work, so public posts stopped. Now I am updating my resume to include the work...

• 2020 Résumé Review

  28 Jan 2021 resume

  I was on a job hunt in early January 2021, so it's time to revise my resume. As per the last resume review, I did this résumé following this very concise guide from the freecodecamp blog. But this time, I...

• Learning Update: Jun 2020

  30 Jun 2020 learning

  This is my second month doing learning update, I've learn a lot this month, this month also includes some of the things I started in May and completed in June. Coursera: Intro to CS I joined this course since May...

• Learning Update: May 2020

  26 May 2020 learning

  Starting this month, I want to record and track all my learnings in this blog. I have been learning so many things, but I did not track or wrote it down systematically in one place. This is my attempt to...

• 2019 Résumé Review

  09 May 2020 resume

  Let us review my 2019 résumé before I quit my job at PetChem. I did this résumé following this very concise guide from freecodecamp blog. As I am changing my career from a non-tech to a software engineer, I want...

• Hello World

  08 May 2020 meta

  First blog post. Hello World!