Writing · 7 posts

Notes on
building.

Working notes on software, infrastructure, and the occasional non-software thing. New posts on irregular Mondays.

May 202618 min

Logic-First AI: A Hypothesis for Lightweight, High-Reasoning Systems

Can we build AI systems that reason well without being large, by separating the logic of reasoning from the storage of knowledge? A research hypothesis exploring modular AI architecture.

Mar 20269 min

Why I use Temporal for anything with more than two steps.

Approval workflows, retry logic, and multi-step pipelines are where queues fall apart and Temporal earns its keep.

Jan 202610 min

Multi-tenancy in Postgres: row-level vs. schema-per-tenant.

The tradeoffs I ran into building PostQueue — and why I landed on row-level with a workspace_id column.

Nov 20257 min

Five Shopify app gotchas nobody warns you about.

Session tokens, GDPR webhooks, Theme App Extensions, and the review checklist — the surprises building FAQFlow.

Sep 20257 min

NestJS vs. Express: when the structure pays off.

After building APIs in both, here is where the extra ceremony of NestJS earns its keep — and where it does not.

Jul 20256 min

Shipping MuPDF to the browser with WebAssembly.

How I compiled a C PDF library to WASM for DimlyPDF, and what the developer experience is actually like in 2025.

May 20259 min

The interface is an API.

Treating UI components like contracts changes how you design them.

Notes onbuilding.