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›Building a WireGuard Mesh for My Homelab
I replaced a hub-and-spoke OpenVPN setup with a full mesh of WireGuard peers. Latency dropped, complexity dropped, and I finally understand why everyone moved.
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›Building an AI Agent with Tool Calling: Lessons from Production
Function calling sounds simple in the docs and breaks in fascinating ways once real users hit it. Here's what I learned shipping an LLM agent to production.
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›The Anatomy of a Modern VPN Protocol: WireGuard vs OpenVPN
WireGuard is ~4000 lines of code. OpenVPN is ~70,000. The performance and security gap exists for a reason. A look under the hood.
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›Web3 Wallet Connection: The 2025 Stack
WalletConnect v2, RainbowKit, wagmi, viem — the modern wallet stack is great, but only if you wire it up in the right order. A pragmatic guide.
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›Building Fast UIs with React Router v7 in Framework Mode
React Router v7's framework mode brings the best of Remix into a familiar API. Here's how I use loaders, actions, and nested routes to ship snappy apps.
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›Self-Hosted Tailscale Alternative with Headscale
Tailscale's UX is a love letter to networking. Headscale gives you the same UX without trusting anyone else's coordination server.
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›RAG vs Fine-Tuning: When to Use Which (and When to Use Both)
Every AI project hits this fork. The honest answer is more nuanced than the Twitter takes suggest.
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›Android 15 Predictive Back Gesture: What Actually Changed
The predictive back animation is finally on by default. Here's what breaks in your app and how to opt in properly with Compose.
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›A Pragmatic Smart Contract Security Checklist
Most exploits aren't novel cryptography. They're the same 12 mistakes, repeated. Here's the checklist I run before any audit.
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›10 TypeScript Tips I Wish I Knew Earlier
Discriminated unions, branded types, satisfies — small patterns that make a huge difference once they're in your toolbox.
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›Jetpack Compose Performance: 7 Pitfalls I Hit in Production
Compose makes it easy to write code that *looks* idiomatic and *runs* terribly. Here are the seven I now check for in every PR.
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›Running LLMs Locally with Ollama: A Practical Workflow
Local LLMs went from "toy" to "genuinely useful" in 2024. Here's the setup I use daily for prototyping without burning OpenAI credits.
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›Inside Network Namespaces: How Containers Actually Isolate Traffic
`docker run` looks like magic. Pull back the curtain and it's mostly `ip netns add` plus a virtual ethernet pair. Let's build it from scratch.
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›Account Abstraction (ERC-4337) Without the Buzzwords
Smart accounts, paymasters, bundlers — explained in plain English with the parts that actually matter for product builders.
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›Designing a Personal Brand as an Engineer
You don't need to be a designer to build a credible online presence. A few opinionated choices go a long way.
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›Evals Are the Most Underrated AI Engineering Skill
Anyone can build an LLM demo. Shipping an LLM product means knowing if it actually works. Evals are how you know.
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›Shipping Side Projects While Employed Full-Time
Energy management beats time management. The systems I use to keep momentum without burning out.
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›Deploying React Router on the Edge
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Deno Deploy — a quick survey of edge runtimes for your React Router v7 app.