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Hello World — Building in Public

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Welcome. After years of accumulating drafts in Notion and threads in private Slack channels, I decided it was time to build a proper home for my writing.

Why another blog?

Most developer blogs are either generated from a template in 10 minutes or over-engineered to the point where the author never actually writes anything. I wanted something in between — a place that feels crafted, but never gets in the way of the writing.

This blog is fully open source. Press ⌘ K to open the command palette and search anything on the site.

What I’ll write about

  • Systems design — scalability decisions, distributed systems trade-offs, architecture reviews.
  • Frontend engineering — React, Next.js, performance, and the craft of building UIs.
  • Engineering culture — team structures, code reviews, on-call, and the invisible labour of software.
  • Tools I build — small utilities, scripts, and experiments.

The stack

This site is built with:

const nextConfig = {
  output: "export",
  images: { unoptimized: true },
};

Everything is statically generated at build time. No database, no server, no cold starts. Just HTML on a CDN.

Thanks for reading. More soon.

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