Notes from production.
Shipping AI features, scaling React apps, and the small lessons that didn't fit anywhere else.
The best code I write makes itself disappear
Nobody should have to learn how the machine works just to flip a switch. This is why I build the boring helpers nobody notices, and why it's the work that matters most.
How scaled products actually deploy frontend and backend
Deploying looks simple until real users and real money are on the line. Here is how big products really deploy their frontend and backend, and why one small git tag sits at the centre of it all.
How product companies actually manage their git branches
I've worked at a few product companies, and they manage branches one of two ways: copy every change by hand, or only ever move it forward. One of them quietly breaks.
Every weekend is a learning opportunity
My weekends, not my job, are where I actually get better at this work. Here is what I do with the only two days nobody else gets to spend for me, and why it matters more than the forty hours.
I worked with two coding gods. It was never about speed.
One had the entire frontend memorised and ended a months-long migration with one hook. The other was the one every hard decision ran through. Neither was the fastest engineer in the room.
I built FreeClothes.in to learn what a day job won't
I built FreeClothes.in to learn what a day job won't teach you. The honest why, the deploy pipeline I'm proudest of, and the morning I broke my own production database.