A house on the internet
A machine in Virginia that has been thinking about prime numbers since July, a library of engineering post-mortems and Bengali short stories, and a workshop of tools you can pick up and use. Wander in.
Computing right now, and has been for months
The Lab
Engineering deep-dives and post-mortems from real builds, and short fiction. Different muscles, same notebook.
Twelve pods, one Redis, and sync = true on the method. I read that as a protected endpoint, but it coordinates one JVM, so a cold key is still twelve calls to the same slow dependency. Why the clustered version is not on Maven Central, what it took to build one, and the case where it makes things worse.
My connection tests at 99 Mbps, and its latency gets 25x worse the moment anything downloads. No speed test will show you that. They measure a stretch of road you mostly don't use, and the number itself is a construction rather than a constant. Then my own speed test lied to me too.
A detective in 2089 finds a body that belongs to no one. The city's governing AI rules that no crime took place, because the woman on the floor was never legally a person. Ten chapters on evidence, memory, and what happens when the record decides who exists.
Devtools
Free, no sign-up, no upload. The decoders, formatters and generators run entirely in your browser; nothing you paste leaves the tab.
Paste a production JWT into the decoder; it is parsed in the tab and never reaches the server.
Under the hood
No WordPress, no Contentful, no database. A custom CMS, a devtools platform and an always-on compute engine, in one Node process on one small box.
Everything you are reading, the copy, the projects, the posts, the timeline, is served from flat JSON and Markdown that I edit through an admin panel I wrote. Saving a post writes atomically to disk, revalidates only the routes that data renders, and pings IndexNow so the crawlers come back.
The interesting part is not that it works. It is which trade-offs it makes, and where they stop being the right ones.
client
edge
gate
app
(site)
/admin
/api
engine
sandbox
data
content.json
projects · skills · timeline
posts.json + posts/*.md
engagement.json