Every engineer I admire has a trail of written thought behind them papers, posts, notebooks, README files that feel like conversations. This blog is my attempt at building that trail.
What You'll Find Here
This isn't a tutorial site. I'm not here to explain what a JOIN is. What I want to write about is the stuff that lives between the documentation:
- Why a technically correct decision was still the wrong one
- What breaks at scale that works perfectly in the demo
- The mental models that actually stuck
The Philosophy
Write to think, not to impress.
I've noticed that the act of writing forces a kind of honesty. You can hold a half-formed idea in your head for months and feel like you understand it. The moment you try to write it down, the gaps appear.
So this blog is partly a thinking tool. If it's useful to anyone else, that's a bonus.
The Tech Stack
This blog is built with a custom Python static site generator about 120 lines of code, Jinja2 templates, and Markdown posts. It deploys to GitHub Pages from the docs/ folder. Zero frameworks. Zero JavaScript bundles. Just files.
I'll write about how it's built in a follow-up post.