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  • Forced Context Distillation: How I Use AI To Ship Faster

    A workflow pattern for using AI to move from messy brainstorming to clean implementation by forcing context distillation between planning and execution phases.

    September 14, 2025
    aiproductivity
  • Mentors Never Met

    Before I learned to build systems, I learned to break them with help from mentors who didn't know they were mentoring.

    June 17, 2025
    personal
  • Cleanup AWS CDK Assets from S3

    AWS CDK is driving up your S3 bill and you may not even realize it.

    December 1, 2024
    awscdk
  • React Provider Composition

    Tired of Provider chaos? Here's how composition saves your sanity.

    August 1, 2024
    reactcomposition
  • Secure Private Networking with WireGuard

    Ditching IPSec for WireGuard to connect my Digital Ocean stack with my home server.

    July 9, 2024
    wireguardnetworking
  • Single Node Docker Swarms Are Underrated

    Why I stopped using docker-compose and switched to single-node swarms for production.

    March 21, 2024
    dockerdevops
  • SSH Gymnastics: Jump Hosts and Port Forwarding

    ProxyJump and port forwarding can navigate any network setup. Set it once, forget it forever.

    January 25, 2024
    sshnetworking
  • Why You Should Consider Nim

    Three years later, I finally gave Nim a serious try. Here's why it changed how I think about systems programming.

    January 11, 2024
    nimprogramming
  • Pretty URLs with AWS CloudFront

    Migrating from nginx to CloudFront? You'll quickly miss some basic web server features.

    November 7, 2023
    awscloudfront