• Tame the Tech

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  • The Hidden Machine Inside Modern Tooling

    The Hidden Machine Inside Modern Tooling

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  • Part-time Agile Will Work Against You

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    Clean tickets, costly stand-ups, slow velocity. Part-time Agile drains teams and delivery. Discover what skipping rituals really costs. more…

  • The Invisible CDN We Built for Display Pics

    The Invisible CDN We Built for Display Pics

    We built a dynamic display picture system in 2012 using X-Accel-Redirect and NGINX, serving fresh content with static-like speed, without a full CDN stack. more…

  • Thinking in Code

    Leadership, remote work, and software philosophy. This is where technical strategy meets mental models and real-world decision-making.

Under the hood…

The Nginx Series

A guide for developers & sysadmins to master single server setups.

  • Tools of the Trade

    From WordPress plugins to Meteor and SSR setups, this cluster covers the frameworks, CMSs, and dev tools that power modern software.