A Completely Reasonable Amount of Tabs:

I’ve wanted to make a little corner of the internet like this for a while. Not really a portfolio and definitely not a place where every post needs to be some perfectly structured technical article. I just wanted somewhere I could put the things I’m thinking about, building, learning, or spending way too much time trying to understand.

Most of my days revolve around software in one way or another. I like working on the parts of products that usually sit quietly in the background. Infrastructure, backend systems, developer tooling, AI, performance, and all of the weird little problems that start showing up once something grows beyond the version you originally imagined. I’ve always liked digging underneath things and figuring out what is actually happening rather than being satisfied that something simply works. Sometimes that curiosity is useful. Other times it means spending an entire evening investigating something that probably could have been left alone.

A lot of what I know has come from building things before I completely understood how to build them. I’ll start with a small idea, convince myself it should only take a weekend, and then somehow end up several weeks later with a much larger project and twenty browser tabs open. Somewhere along the way I usually learn more than I would have if I had waited until I felt completely ready. I think that process of building, getting something wrong, figuring out why, and trying again is probably my favorite part of engineering.

I also really enjoy reading other engineers’ writing. Some of the most useful things I’ve learned have come from random blog posts written years ago by someone documenting a problem they ran into at work. There’s something nice about finding a post where someone explains exactly what they tried, what went wrong, and what they would do differently next time. It feels much more useful to me than pretending every project went exactly according to plan. That’s partly what I want this place to be too.

So I’ll probably write about mistakes here. Things I built badly the first time. Ideas that sounded great and turned out not to be. Small discoveries that saved me a ridiculous amount of time. Projects that never became anything. Projects that accidentally became much bigger than I expected. I want to write about the process around building things, not only the finished result.

AI will probably show up here quite a bit too. I’m interested in where it fits into the way we build software, but I’m even more interested in all the strange questions that come with it. What happens when models become part of the infrastructure itself? What should we automate and what should probably stay boring and manual? How do you build systems around something that can behave differently every time you ask it the same question? There are a lot of things happening in this space that I don’t have definite answers to, which honestly makes it more interesting to write about.

Outside of that, expect a lot of smaller things. Notes from something I was experimenting with, thoughts after reading a paper, a tool I found useful, something strange I noticed while debugging, or an idea I haven’t figured out what to do with yet. Some posts might be long and technical. Others might just be a few paragraphs about something I couldn’t stop thinking about that day.

I’m also trying not to worry too much about whether everything I write here ages perfectly. I’m sure I’ll eventually come back to something and completely disagree with myself. I actually hope that happens. One of the reasons I wanted to start writing more is so I can see how my thinking changes over time. It’s easy to forget how differently you understood something before you spent months working with it.

There’s no posting schedule and no big plan for where this goes. I’ll write when I have something worth writing down. Mostly this is just my notebook, except it happens to be public. A place for things I’ve learned, things I’m still trying to understand, things I’m building, and probably a few ideas that should have stayed in my notes app.

If you found your way here, hopefully there’s something useful somewhere in the mess.