Notes from production.
Shipping AI features, scaling React apps, and the small lessons that didn't fit anywhere else.
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.
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 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.
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.