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I write about development techniques, project insights, and lessons learned building software.

2026

Understanding Prompt Caching: The KV Cache Explained

A deep dive into how prompt caching actually works under the hood — from tokenization and attention mechanisms to the KV matrices that make LLMs 10x faster and cheaper

Mar 16, 2026

How I Built a Skills Registry to Sync AI Agent Capabilities

Creating a unified CLI system to manage and synchronize AI skills across 45+ coding agents

Mar 8, 2026

How I Built a Persistent Memory MCP Using Only Cloudflare

Building a production-ready memory system for AI agents without the infrastructure headache

Mar 2, 2026

2025

A Practical Guide to Building Real Projects with v0

A practical, opinionated guide to using v0 end-to-end — from prompts and models to design systems, MCPs, and templates — so you can turn vague ideas into real, scalable projects instead of half-baked demos.

Dec 16, 2025

My Journey with DuckDB: Processing 70GB Files in Minutes

How I learned to process massive data files efficiently using DuckDB's streaming architecture, moving from chunking nightmares to elegant single-pass solutions.

Dec 13, 2025

From PyFlink to Fluvio: Why We Migrated Our CEF Log Pipeline

After months of experimentation with Apache Flink, we migrated our entire CEF log parsing pipeline to Fluvio, a Rust-based streaming platform. Here's why the switch delivered 5× faster throughput and 10–50× less memory usage.

Oct 25, 2025

Everything New in Tailwind v4

Tailwind released new version, so here are all the details of it.

Mar 18, 2025

Getting Started with NestJS

Getting started to learn NestJS. So this my Notes for it

Feb 12, 2025

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