Ten months of Dutch, honestly assessed
What moved quickly, what has not moved at all, and the practice habits that survive a busy week.
Learning, written down
Notes as they happen: what I read, built, got wrong, and understood properly the second time.
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Recent entries
Newest first. Short thoughts and longer write-ups mixed together, because not everything deserves an essay.
2026 · October
2026 · September
Rebuilding the billing flow as events
Why the second version of an event-driven design is usually the simpler one, and the retry question that decided the whole shape.
The bug that only appeared on Fridays
A cache warm-up running on a schedule nobody remembered setting. A short story about assumptions hidden in configuration.
2026 · August
Senior interview preparation, week one
A plan that fits around a full-time job, and the first week of sticking to it.
2026 · July
Current learning
System design, Dutch and agents — what I am reading for each, and what I have stopped reading.
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