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Engineering notes from the workbench.
Short, practical lessons from production APIs, agentic AI systems, mobile products and technical leadership.
flutter · dart · mobile · programming
Your Flutter App Is Not Slow. It Is Loading Full Size Images Into Tiny Boxes.
A product list I reviewed scrolled badly on older phones. Every card showed a small thumbnail, but...
Nov 5, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 reactionsnode · backend · api · webdev
Your API Is Not Slow. It Returns Everything.
A dashboard page I worked on loaded a list of orders and felt heavy on every open. The endpoint was...
Nov 3, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 reactionsflutter · dart · mobile · programming
I Reject More PRs for Boring Mistakes Than for Clever Bugs
I reject more PRs for boring mistakes than for clever bugs. I lead a team of Flutter developers and...
Oct 31, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 reactionsnestjs · node · ai · webdev
Your AI Agent Is Only as Good as the API It Calls
Your AI agent is only as good as the API it calls. I wired an agent to a NestJS backend last...
Oct 29, 2026 · 6 min read · 1 reactionsnextjs · ai · webdev · javascript
Your Users Are Searching. Your Search Is Just Matching Keywords.
Your users are searching. Your search is just matching keywords. A client had a help center built in...
Oct 27, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 reactionsai · backend · node · javascript
90% of the AI Agents Clients Ask For Are Just a Cron Job and One API Call
A founder asked me to build an autonomous AI agent that monitors their reviews around the clock. I...
Oct 24, 2026 · 3 min read · 2 reactionsai · llm · openai · backend
My AI Support Agent Crushed the Demo. Then Production Happened.
Everyone shows the AI agent working. Nobody shows the week it fell apart. I built a support agent...
Oct 22, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 reactionsnode · flutter · backend
Your Pay Button Is Not the Problem. Your Server Is.
User pressed "Pay" twice. Got charged twice. Last month a client called me in a panic: "Stripe is...
Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 reactions