03 May, 2025
Every backend engineer knows the benefits of ORMs—but what about the trade-offs? This article explores when ORMs start hurting performance, scalability, and team velocity—and why plain SQL (or a smarter abstraction) might be the better tool. - 09 Apr, 2025
Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
Understanding the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). SRP is seemingly simple, but often times it could be tricky because of the ambiguity of what constitutes single responsibility. - 24 Feb, 2025
Why have I switched from vim to nvim
Why did I switch from Vim to Neovim? Faster performance, Lua-based config, built-in LSP, and a superior plugin ecosystem. Here’s my experience migrating from Vim to Neovim and why I’m not looking back. - 21 Feb, 2025
We are good at abstractions. We are bad at abstractions.
Abstractions promise simplicity but deliver complexity—easy to imagine, hard to implement, dragging every elegant design into spaghetti code. Why can we land on the moon but can't name a class? - 01 Nov, 2024
How to become a Backend Software Engineer (2024 edition)
Want to become a software engineer, but don't know where to start? I have more than 15 years in this racket, and I have some advice for you. - 30 Oct, 2024
Types of software engineers you are bound to meet
A humorous guide to every software engineer type you'll meet, from the Stack Overflow Copypaster to the Agile Evangelist. Perfect for a quick laugh and some relatable tech insights! - 04 Oct, 2024
Let's self-host!
A series of blog posts about my personal experience building a home server and self-hosting apps. Learn how I set up my server, what apps I use, and how I maintain it. - 24 Sep, 2024
Pimp my terminal
Pimp your terminal like I do. Replace your boring cat with vibrating bat, RIP grep, and change directoris with zoxide, a cd on steroids! - 23 Feb, 2023
Barbara Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
Get the Liskov Substitution Principle right. This article explains what, when, and how. I go through most common misonceptions about the LSP and explain what it truly means. Read this article to understand practical importance of one of the most (if not THE MOST) important principles of SOLID. - 11 Oct, 2022
Draft posts in GatsbyJs
Make posts you are working on visible in local env and hidden on prod - 06 Oct, 2022
- 22 Sep, 2022
Rendering code blocks with gatsby, mdx, and prismjs
Gatsby, mdx, prism - 25 Aug, 2022
My working setup
Not exactly mouse-less, but a mouse-minimal working setup mainly relying on vim, tmux and a bunch of CLI scripts - 20 Aug, 2022
How to manage dotfiles with git bare repo
The best way of managing dotfiles I know so far - 19 Aug, 2022
How to manage secrets with vim and dropbox
Securely store your passwords using vim and dropbox - 19 Aug, 2022
Secret questions
Don't be fooled! If you are answering truth to the "secret questions", read this article! - 04 Aug, 2022
Why I use vim
My story of falling in love with the best (totally obective, haha) code editor - 25 Jul, 2022
How and why did I switch from zsh to fish
Switching to a different shell may be daunting. But fish was totally worth it