Distributed consensus: Raft from first principles
Walking through the Raft paper with hand-drawn state machines, implementing a toy consensus protocol in Go.
Notes from the field. —
Long-form writing — from structured learning logs to critical teardowns of tools and infrastructure. Original analysis, not summaries.
Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon: a teardown
What runs under the hood on ARM, why the hypervisor overhead matters, and when podman or orbstack are better choices.
LLM orchestration patterns: agents, tools, and loops
Surveying the landscape of agent frameworks — ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, tool-augmented generation — and when each pattern breaks.
Neovim as a Rust IDE: worth the migration?
Migrating a Rust workspace from VS Code to Neovim — LSP setup, tree-sitter parsing, debugging, and the cognitive cost of configuration.
Obsidian for technical note-taking at scale
Using Obsidian as a second brain for architecture decisions, meeting notes, and deep-dive research — plugins, dataview, and graph limitations.
Compiler toolchain: from AST to machine code
Building a minimal compiler that parses expressions, lowers to LLVM IR, and emits Mach-O binaries on macOS.