Writing
Essays, learnings, technical notes, and the occasional rant.
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Why the Room Goes Quiet
Why capable people stay silent in meetings, and the mechanical moves leaders can use to level the field and let the good ideas out.
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HAL 9000 - An Obsidian and Claude Co-Pilot
Blending Obsidian and Claude into a small set of skills that plan my day, organize my notes, and surface follow-ups - all from plain markdown.
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Iteration Four - Fundamentals & Habits
Setting up a system to track fitness and health fundamentals. Building in Public, One Habit at a Time
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Psychology of learned helplessness to tackle issues in engineering teams
Tech debt is rarely a tooling problem — it's often learned helplessness, and external intervention plus small repeated actions is how teams break the cycle.
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Strangulating bare-metal infrastructure to Containers
An incremental strangler-pattern migration from bare-metal Ansible deployments to Kubernetes with under a few minutes of production disruption.
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Patterns for microservices - Sync vs Async
Trade-offs between synchronous and asynchronous communication styles in a microservices architecture.
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How I learned to love personal development
Finding structure in personal development so it doesn't get crowded out by delivery and deadlines.
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Building Adaptive Mobile APIs with Legacy Services
An adaptive proxy layer between mobile apps and legacy backends to decouple release cadence, trim payloads, and aggregate sources.
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Reinforced design with TDD
How TDD reinforces good object design — breaking problems into small units, forcing behavior-first thinking, and building a safety net for refactoring.
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Objects that talk domain
Why models should own behavior tied to the domain — and what's wrong with the data-transfer-object reflex many enterprise developers carry over.
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Objects that are loose and discrete
State vs behavior, Tell-Don't-Ask, unidirectional associations, Law of Demeter, and dependency injection — guidelines that keep object models loosely coupled.
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Design patterns for win
Why design patterns are worth learning — illustrated with Command and Strategy refactorings on the Mars Rover problem.
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Decoding ThoughtWorks' coding problems
An intro to a series on what "good code" means in the context of ThoughtWorks' interview code reviews, using the Mars Rover problem.
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Validating SSL certs in Mobile Apps
Preventing Man in the middle attacks with certification .
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