Engineering

Technical Journal // Engineering
Jun '26

So, We Are Writing Efficient Software Again

RAM is up 400%. CPUs cost 15% more. The free hardware lunch is finally over. Welcome back to the 80s, where every byte counts.

Jun '26

Constructing Concurrent Inverted Indexes in Go

Building a thread-safe inverted index from scratch in Go. Covers sharded mutexes, lock contention profiling, slice pooling to avoid GC pressure, and benchmark comparisons against a naive sync.RWMutex approach under varying read/write ratios.

Jun '26

A Love Letter to the L1 Cache

Why reordering two struct fields made my loop 30% faster, and what it taught me about how CPUs actually work.

Jun '26

Wireless ADB When Your Network Fights You

How to connect ADB over Wi-Fi using a one-time USB handshake, even when a VPN or firewall blocks the direct connection.

May '26

Why Explaining Technical Difficulty is Hard

"It's just a simple query". Why the distance between a logical requirement and its infrastructure cost is the most expensive gap in engineering.

May '26

Just About Go Time

A breakdown of the absolute absurdity of human time, monotonic clocks in Go, and the one true way to store time across PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and mobile clients.

May '26

Building a Poor Document Store inside PostgreSQL

A forensic analysis of why abusing JSONB for schemaless architecture leads to write amplification, TOAST bloat, and catastrophic query planner failures.

May '26

How to Handle PostgreSQL Database Migrations in Go with Goose

A breakdown of database migration strategies and implementation guide using PostgreSQL, Golang, and the Goose migration engine.

Apr '26

Migrating Cloudflare to Terraform

A technical reference on migrating existing Cloudflare infrastructure to Terraform. Includes an automated bootstrapping script to bypass manual state imports and handle API edge cases.

Apr '26

The Critical Rendering Path

A technical guide to the browser's macro pipeline. Understand how the DOM, CSSOM, Render Tree, Layout, and Paint phases collaborate to deliver a website.