Writing.

Product, design, and engineering — things I learned the hard way or found worth sharing.

We Stopped Trusting Deployments Until We Fixed This

Nothing destroys trust in deployments faster than realizing staging and production were never actually running the same thing.

Terraform is Like a Dishwasher: Great for Daily Loads, Overkill for a Single Cup

If you've heard the word "Terraform" thrown around in tech circles and nodded along pretending to know what it means, you're not alone.

We Were Overengineering Ourselves Into Operational Exhaustion

What happens when a small team inherits infrastructure patterns built for a platform org three times its size.

Why we built Partida: the gap no one was filling in immigration tech

Most immigration software is built for lawyers, not families. Here's what we found when we actually talked to both.

HTMX in production: what nobody tells you about going hypermedia-first

Six months of FastAPI + HTMX in a real product. The good, the surprising, and the one pattern I'd change.