WRITING

Things I figured out the hard way.

Dev notes, debugging stories, and workflow tricks. No fluff — just the stuff that actually came up while building real things.

Node.jsDXProductivity

Small things I wish someone told me before I wasted hours debugging nothing

Port conflicts, silent 404s, missing logs, repetitive terminal commands — the embarrassingly simple fixes that make dev life actually bearable.

April 17, 2025 6 min read
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DeploymentNode.jsDebugging

It works on my machine — and why that’s not an excuse

The classic developer line is a symptom of deeper issues in how we build, test, and deploy. Here’s how to escape the “it works on my machine” trap.

April 21, 2025 7 min read
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DevOpsAWSNginx

Building Our Own Vercel — Part 1: EC2 + Nginx Setup

Ever wondered how Vercel generates subdomains and maps them to your project? In this series, we build our own deployment platform from scratch. Part 1: spinning up an EC2 instance and getting Nginx running.

May 1, 2025 7 min read
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