Writing

Notes on engineering, design, and building products.

I write about the things I run into while building, patterns that work, tradeoffs worth making explicit, and the occasional deep-dive into a specific tool or problem space.

CLIs Are for Robots, IDEs Are for Humans

A mental model for agentic coding workflows: where machines execute, where humans judge, and why keeping that distinction sharp makes everything work better.

A Practical Pattern for Hydrating AI-Generated Object Templates

How I hydrate server-side LLM templates with client constants and API data using a queue-based pattern.

flutter

Stateless Classes Are Better: A Lesson from Flutter

Stop storing state in your classes. Localize it via providers, minimize your bug surface area, and write code that's actually testable.

data-visualization

Treat Your Chart Like MVVM: Client-Side ETL for Better Visualizations

Learn how to build better data visualizations by treating charts like MVVM components with proper client-side ETL pipelines. Stop fighting your charting libraries and start feeding them clean, predictable data.

typescript

Caching Isn’t a SaaS Product, It’s a Data Structure

The industry won’t tell you this, but a hashmap does 90% of what you need

typescript

The Ultimate Tool for Managing Types in Monorepos

gRPC Is the Secret Weapon Your Monorepo Desperately Needs

typescript

Divide and Conquer Timeline Data with Typescript

Typescript time series and Date objects

The Growing Importance of SMEs in AI Agent Design

AI agents are revolutionizing industries, but here's why they still need us more than ever

engineering-culture

The Myth of the “Universal Language” for Internal Tool Development

We've all heard this story before. You finally get buy-in to build a tool that solves your pet peeve. You have a plan figured out, but then your manager says the dreaded phrase, “Use a different language so that others can contribute”… which seldom happens.