Writing

Rift: The Architecture of a Zero-Config Dev Runner

A deep dive into every decision, trade-off, and data flow behind a CLI tool that wants to kill your multi-terminal workflow.

The Human Context Layer

Why the most critical part of your codebase lives in people, not files.

Spent Hours Fighting Mermaid SVG → PNG Export (Missing Text Nightmare)

AI Code Assistants: The Art of Lazy Engineering

Why Your AI Just Slapped `any` on Everything and Called It a Day*

RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Just Write a Prompt First

The Angel Batista Philosophy

The AI Code Quality Study Nobody Wants to Talk About

Document Once, Let AI Do the Rest

how I approach most of my work today.

The "Wait, Should I Fix the Code or the Test?" Moment ; AI Finally Gets It

Why Your Node Tests Are Failing (And It's Not Your Code)

Getting 'Unable to deserialize cloned data' errors in Node tests? Here's why storing Mongoose documents at suite level breaks serialization—and the simple fix that saved my New Year's.