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Deep dive on full-stack engineering, agentic AI, and shipping production software + commits from a life spent building from anywhere. 12 articles

AI Agent Upgraded My Codebase to Nuxt 4
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AI Agent Upgraded My Codebase to Nuxt 4

From Nuxt 3 to Nuxt 4 in two hours. 45 passing tests. Zero manual edits. Here's what agentic coding actually looks like in the wild.

Mar 3, 20267 min read
Designing Agentic AI Workflows with LangGraph
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Designing Agentic AI Workflows with LangGraph

LangChain is great for chains. LangGraph is great for agents. I rebuilt a document-processing pipeline as a graph and the difference in debuggability was immediately obvious.

Jan 12, 202612 min read
The Mental Model I Use for React Server Components
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The Mental Model I Use for React Server Components

After six months of production RSC usage, one reframe made everything click: stop thinking about components and start thinking about render boundaries.

Dec 20, 20258 min read
Wi-Fi, Waves, and Work Calls: My Nomad Stories
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Wi-Fi, Waves, and Work Calls: My Nomad Stories

True stories from working around the world, where meetings meet adventures.

Dec 18, 20254 min read
Zero to Production: Deploying Next.js on Railway
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Zero to Production: Deploying Next.js on Railway

Railway removed all the reasons I had to use Vercel. Here's a complete walkthrough including environment variables, Postgres, and custom domains.

Nov 22, 20257 min read
Remote Work: Engineering Without Borders
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Remote Work: Engineering Without Borders

Lessons from years of building software across time zones, cultures, and coffee shops.

Oct 5, 20253 min read
Building Type-Safe APIs with tRPC and Next.js
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Building Type-Safe APIs with tRPC and Next.js

End-to-end type safety without code generation. I'll show you how tRPC eliminates the API contract problem entirely and why it's become my go-to for full-stack TypeScript projects.

Aug 18, 20257 min read
Digital Nomading: Code, Chocolate, and Coordinates
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Digital Nomading: Code, Chocolate, and Coordinates

What it's like to write software while living anywhere the Wi-Fi reaches.

Aug 1, 20253 min read
Prompt Engineering for Code Generation
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Prompt Engineering for Code Generation

The techniques that actually move the needle when you're using LLMs to write production code - beyond the obvious "be specific" advice.

Jul 28, 20256 min read
Hiring a Freelancer
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Hiring a Freelancer

A look into how a freelance full-stack engineer brings value, speed, and flexibility to modern software teams.

Jun 1, 20253 min read
Ranked #1 in Speed Coding Challenge
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Ranked #1 in Speed Coding Challenge

A deep dive into how curiosity, client-side analysis, and cloud computing helped me climb to the top of Toptal's JS leaderboard.

May 1, 20254 min read
Project Management Approach
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Project Management Approach

As a senior freelance engineer, I often work without a formal PM. Here's how I step up and keep delivery as the north star.

Apr 1, 20253 min read