Notes from production.
Shipping AI features, scaling React apps, and the small lessons that didn't fit anywhere else.
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.
Breaking Into a Product Company in Less Than 2 Years
Most people say the service-to-product jump takes five years, a tier-1 college, and luck. I made it to LambdaTest in under two years with none of those. Here is the real playbook.
Why I built my own blog instead of using Substack
Substack would have taken twenty minutes. This took two weekends. Here's the honest math on why I picked the slower option and the cases where you absolutely shouldn't.