Notes on work, technology, and staying human
Software engineering career lessons, grown slowly
Insights from a decade of building systems and the professional growth that shapes them. No hacks, just quiet wisdom uncovered by doing the work.
Work · Technology · Decision making · Professional growth
Curated highlights
Start here; these pieces capture the core of my software engineering career lessons
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5–7 minutesI wrote impossible queries just to avoid an awkward conversation
I spent hours working around a broken design because I was afraid of a 10-minute awkward conversation.
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2–3 minutesTechnical debt lessons from software engineering
Technical debt isn’t a code problem. It’s a series of human decisions we keep postponing.
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2–3 minutesWhat being a software engineer really is
Being a software engineer involves far more conversations than code, and that surprises a lot of people.
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Core essays
(full bloom; long pieces)
Thoughtful pieces about values, identity, and how I choose to engage with work, technology, and life.
Technical reflections
(growing; medium pieces)
Reflections on working in tech, covering software, systems, teams, and the decisions behind them.
Experiments & notes
(seeds; short pieces)
Shorter, exploratory pieces, unfinished thoughts, experiments, observations, or learning notes.
About me
I’m a software engineer with over a decade of experience, writing about work, tech, and decision making in reflective, humane ways.
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Latest writings
New software engineering career lessons and reflections from my digital garden
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3–4 minutesCode, Craftsmanship, and Being “Star-Struck”
A regular user of one of my platforms met me and he was “star-struck”, and the parallels of sewing and coding.
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3–4 minutesNaming conventions in software: consistency vs. standards
What’s more important: sticking to global standards or maintaining internal consistency?
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1–2 minutesHarnessing the little wins
A lesson I learnt as a junior software engineer from my mentor, who sat opposite me.
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1–2 minutesWork-life balance
We exchange finite hours of our life for abstract numbers in a bank account.
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2–3 minutesLifting the front wheel
Falling from the bike while copying my brother was a learning moment. And not just for riding!