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Thoughts on distributed systems, functional programming, cloud architecture, and building software that scales — collected from years of building across different paradigms and platforms.

May 20, 2026

Architecting Determinism: Taming AI Agents with Skills, Context, and Binary Assertions

Why massive system prompts fail, what Vercel Labs discovered about agent documentation, and the hybrid architecture that finally gives skeptical engineers control over non-deterministic code generation.

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April 20, 2026

Bare Metal in the Age of Agents: Why the Cloud Premium is Losing its Shine

A deep dive into abandoning the cloud abstraction layer, architecting for raw hardware, and how AI agents are eliminating the traditional Ops barrier to entry.

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April 14, 2026

The Complete Guide to Modern Application Configuration: Overcoming the .env Chaos

From hardcoded secrets to dynamic feature flags — an exploration into the three pillars of modern configuration management and the Central Shared Truth.

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April 6, 2026

State, Time, and Scale: Why Clojure Reshaped My Brain

From shedding mutability to manipulating temporal data — an exploration into the profound architectural shift from object-oriented programming to pure functional paradigms.

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