Posts in category: engineering

Meet Trade Tycoon, my latest weekend side project: a Monopoly-style game I hacked together after trying to play online with school friends across different cities. It was also a fun excuse to try Expo Web.

When code becomes cheap to produce, the hard part of software development shifts to deciding what should exist, proving it works, and deciding who gets to trust it. My predictions for teams, code review, open source, computing costs, and the software we use.

AI can write a feature in minutes. That does not mean it can own the result. The difference between vibe coding and agentic engineering is not which model you use, but how you make decisions, verify the work, and take responsibility for what ships.

I recently came across this Twitter thread, where @samuelstancl listed tips for writing cleaner code in Laravel, as well as some general Laravel coding advice. These are a great starting point to develop a sense for what’s good code and what’s bad code - so I collated them below (with...

Every year around this time, a new batch of high school students finally confront the looming question in front of them - which course of study to pursue moving forward? (Sure, there is that 10% who has it all figured out for the next decade, but lets stick to the...