Notes from the studio

Stop Writing Referral Tables: How to Build a Stateless Referral System with Redis and FastAPI

Job Description Keywords: How to Rank Without Writing Thin Programmatic Content

Testing LLM Agents in Production: Why Your AI App Breaks on Every Model Update (And How to Fix It in 60 Minutes)

Stop Blaming 'Rogue' Agents for Your Bad Error Handling

Gemini Latency Optimization: Why TTFT Matters More Than Benchmarks

Why I Built Ciralia: One Place to Run Three Small Products

Running three products alone meant a dozen dashboards and no single view. Ciralia is the operating layer I built for it, and approval is the core design rule.

Three Environments, One Oracle VM: Running Production, Staging and Test on a Single Box

How SwitchWithAI runs production, staging and a test sandbox on one Oracle Ampere VM, and the silent port-collision failure that shaped the setup.

Tailoring a Resume Without Touching Its Layout: Editing DOCX in Place

How SwitchWithAI rewrites resume text inside the original DOCX so fonts, spacing and page count survive, and why the PDF step is where layouts quietly break.

Stop Blaming the LLM: Why Rogue AI Agents Are Just Bad State Machines

Are AI Agents Just If-Statements? A Technical Dissection of Agent Hype

Tethering iMessage to Linux: The Unseen Mobile Engineering Hurdles

RTX 5060 AI Setup: Building a Local AI Lab on a Budget

GA4 Content Engagement Metrics for Developers: Moving Beyond Page Views

Firebase Supabase Cognito Comparison: Why I Skipped AWS for My Indie SaaS

Custom Flutter Animations: How to Build High-Performance UIs Beyond Hero Transitions