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One write, two deliveries

The notification service behind SynapStore, built during a hackathon. Redis Streams for history, pub/sub for speed, web push for closed tabs, and what I would change reading it a year later.

Nov 1, 2026 · 4 min read

The bugs behind a cheap model router

Promptimizer routes each LLM request to the cheapest model that can handle it. The hard part was not the routing. It was streaming, stale state and models that quietly ran out of tokens.

Nov 1, 2026 · 5 min read

The ring under the pointer

How Yuzu notices a key tap in the middle of someone else's file drag without asking for Accessibility permission, and what it took to ship one build for Intel and Apple Silicon.

Nov 1, 2026 · 4 min read

Works on my machine is a bug

Three small fixes in Vidya, a learning platform monorepo, that only showed up when the code left my laptop. A phone that could not reach localhost, tests that ran twice, and Swagger forms with no fields.

Nov 1, 2026 · 4 min read

Running a chess LMS in production

What I learned keeping live chess games running at ABC Chess, where serverless stops working and one bad line of JavaScript took the game server down.

Oct 11, 2026 · 3 min read

What 10 merged PRs taught me about large codebases

How I find my way around repos like Mozilla accounts, Apache Airflow and Cal.diy, and the review that taught me the most.

Sep 20, 2026 · 4 min read

Listening to my Mac

Capturing system audio on macOS without a fake audio driver, and transcribing it on device for free.

Aug 2, 2026 · 2 min read

The endpoint that took 2.5 seconds

A day of performance work on UniZ, the campus platform 1,500+ students at RGUKT use, and the slow query I only found once I stopped guessing and measured.

Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read

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