Random stuff I write when I'm bored or figure something out.
A developer's journey of building a privacy-first, real-time attendance tracker on top of a legacy university portal, fighting headless browser detection, and designing for the anxious student.
From Chord paper to working implementation — lessons learned while building a DHT with consistent hashing and replication.
A practical guide to running schema changes on large Postgres tables without locking or downtime.
An accessible introduction to conflict-free replicated data types and how they enable seamless real-time editing.
How we used WebGPU to render terminal output at 120fps, and the unexpected challenges of text shaping on the GPU.
Using eBPF probes to collect traces and metrics without touching application code.