Deep dives into backend systems, cultural computing, and the philosophy of building tools that matter. Real stories from the trenches of software engineering.
I started as a simple deployment tool that became a lesson in distributed systems, developer psychology, and the art of saying no to features. Here's the unfiltered story of building a platform that I believ will change how we deploy nextjs
After 18 months of building production services in both languages, here's my brutally honest comparison. Spoiler: the answer isn't what you think, and it has nothing to do with performance benchmarks.
Building NLP tools for a 20-million speaker language that most AI models ignore. This is the story of bridging computational linguistics with cultural preservation, one morpheme at a time.
Most developers think about containers wrong. This mental shift changed how I architect applications and debug production issues. It'll change how you think about deployment too.
Traditional Somali gabay poetry follows strict rules that create beauty through constraint. Modern code should too. Here's how ancient art forms can improve your software architecture.
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