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Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
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Send an EmailThoughts on building software, running a business, and everything in between.
Architecture decisions, incident write-ups, and post-mortems from production systems.
Why I split a WhatsApp messaging gateway across a cloud front door and a Mac at home, and how the two halves stay in sync, stay secure, and confirm every send.
How HMD Pay charges nothing for payment processing, and why the model that everyone said was impossible has been running for over three years.
Performance patterns for Next.js 15 on Vercel: Server Components, static generation, image and font budgets, edge redirects and build-time computation.
The architecture and technical decisions behind HMD Payments, a zero-fee payment platform supporting crypto, Papara, IBAN, and card transactions
How we built a Discord invite-tracking system that handles thousands of events per minute and detects fake accounts with behavioural heuristics.
Practical MongoDB patterns for high-throughput apps: per-guild documents, capped collections, compound indexes, bulk writes and lazy schema migration at scale.
The architecture behind Chat Guard, a Discord moderation bot serving 7,500+ servers and 15M+ users: sharding, MongoDB at scale, and the event pipeline.