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Essays on developer tooling, cybersecurity, open source, and what classical music taught me about software. New pieces land here first.
Latest Essay · 22 Oct 2026
The Unseen Cost of Building: 14-Hour Days, Expensive Data, and Why We Still Show Up
On 14-hour days on plastic chairs in tech hubs, burning through mobile data, fighting hallucinating AI on 50k LOC codebases, and why a single npm download makes it all worth it.
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DevTools · MCP · 13 Oct 2026
How npx @latest Was Silently Killing My MCP Servers
One invisible config bug kept killing my AI agents at boot. How I found it and built fixmcp, a doctor for MCP server configurations.
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Cybersecurity · Certification · 13 Oct 2026
Think Like an Attacker: Notes from IBM Cybersecurity Architecture
Threat modeling first, features second — what the certification changed about how I write backend code.
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