Blog

Writing and notes.

I regularly share what I'm learning, thinking about and experimenting with.

• May 12, 2026·Essay·8 min read

  How a good computer engineer thinks

  A short essay on the tension between abstraction, intuition and detail.

• Apr 28, 2026·Systems·14 min read

  Building an HTTP server from scratch in Rust

  Starting from a TCP socket, a small but correct HTTP/1.1 implementation.

• Apr 03, 2026·Design·6 min read

  Color tokens for design systems

  Why OKLCH over HEX? How do theme variables scale?

• Mar 20, 2026·AI·10 min read

  Getting RAG wrong

  Vector search isn't everything. The real problem with retrieval.

• Mar 05, 2026·Career·5 min read

  Contributing to open source as a student

  Lessons learned from my first PR to today.