Notes from production.
Shipping AI features, scaling React apps, and the small lessons that didn't fit anywhere else.
Hard work can take you anywhere in life
From a tier 3 college where implementing a stack was a great day, to shipping AI features end to end. Nothing about me changed except the hours I put in.
Teach yourself Everything: the Art of Self-Learning
Nobody tells you when the teaching stops. At a product company no one explains the codebase, no one hands you knowledge, and everything that actually moves your career is work nobody assigned you.
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.
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.