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Essays and field notes from building products end-to-end — Go backends, motion work, and the unglamorous decisions that decide whether software ships.

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EngineeringMay 2026 · 6 min

Why I moved my blog from a CMS to MDX

Local .mdx files beat a hosted CMS for a personal blog. Here's the Next.js setup I shipped in an afternoon — and the trade-offs I weighed first.

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BackendMar 2026

Sub-millisecond redirects with Go and Redis

What it actually takes to serve 14k requests a second from a link shortener — connection pooling, cache warming, and the profiling that found the real bottleneck.

9 min read

MotionFeb 2026

GSAP scroll animations without the jank

Pinning, batching, and the will-change rules I follow to keep ScrollTrigger buttery — even on a mid-range Android.

7 min read

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