Reflecting on My Year-Long Parenting Sabbatical
From July 2025 to June 2026 I stepped away from my software career to spend every day with my one-year-old son. A reflection on the choices, the money, the FOMO, and the magic of that year.
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Patterns for Writing Efficient Queue Consumers
Practical patterns for designing queue consumers that actually scale: decoupled polling, semaphore concurrency, and priority-aware buffers.
Visualizing GitHub in Real Time on My Homepage
I wanted a living background for my personal site. So I built a real-time code rain visualization powered by GitHub's event stream, SSE, and some physics.
I Vibe Coded a VPN to Watch Football
FanCode blocked my VPN during the Carabao Cup final. So I built a CLI that deploys self-hosted Tailscale exit nodes on AWS, Hetzner, or GCP in one command.
Using Claude to Clean Junk Apps on Android
My parents' Android phone had 600+ apps flooding notifications. Claude connected via ADB over WiFi and bulk-uninstalled the junk in 30 minutes.