Notes on backend architecture, frontend engineering, and everything in between.
You don't need to be a sysadmin to self-host reliably — just a small, repeatable checklist that covers the ways side projects actually go down.
Lessons from building and maintaining production APIs at scale — validation, error handling, and versioning strategies that actually hold up.
Server Components, colocated section components, and what actually changed when moving off the Pages Router.
Firebase gets dismissed as 'not a real backend' by a lot of developers who'd actually ship faster using it for the right kind of project.
You don't need a company cluster to understand orchestration — a weekend project and a single-node setup will teach you most of what matters.
I'd been writing object-oriented PHP professionally for years before university made me formalize it in Java. That order taught me things a textbook-first path wouldn't have.