Blog

Experience reports and notes on my projects and various technical topics.

Monorepo vs polyrepo: why I kept 5 separate repos

Monorepo vs polyrepo, from a real project: five repositories (Python, TypeScript, Rust) behind a build web app, what settled it, and what a polyrepo costs.

October 29, 20266 min read

Wakfuli

Building Wakfuli: Two Years of Decisions

July 2, 20269 min read

Dev

Putting names back on obfuscated code, through structural similarity

July 1, 20268 min read

Notes

Designing Around Data You Don't Own

June 30, 20265 min read

Wakfuli

The full ecosystem: from a live game to a web app

June 29, 20266 min read

Dev

Why I wrote a 90-line image CDN instead of paying for a service

June 28, 20264 min read

Dev

Color-similarity search: cube, GiST, and a hand-rolled Lab converter

June 27, 20267 min read

Dev

Zero-downtime data reseeding with a custom command

June 26, 20267 min read

Dev

Filter pg_dump rows to ship a public data tier

June 25, 20267 min read

Dev

Hexagonal architecture for real, not in theory

June 24, 20265 min read

Dev

Rebuilding a Tooltip Template Language Without Documentation, One Spell at a Time

June 23, 202612 min read

Dev

A CPU software rasterizer that has to match a GPU pixel-for-pixel

June 22, 20267 min read

Dev

Tracking a proprietary MMO's binary format across patches

June 21, 20267 min read