WhatsApp Culture
Six years inside WhatsApp's improbably quiet Menlo Park building, where the motto was Keep It Simple and the F word was Focus; and where you hot-loaded code straight into production, no code review. It worked.
Archive
All of my posts.
Astrophotography
Notes from the Death Valley Dark Sky Festival — amino acids in meteorites, planets around every star, and the practical limits of a Leica Q2 capped at 8 seconds of exposure when you really want twenty.
Happiness @ Work
Five aspects worth weighing when picking a career or changing jobs: money, power, domain, people, growth. And one last gut check — are you having fun? If Mondays don't energize you more often than not, you're probably in the wrong place.
Blogging With GitHub Gages, From A Private Repository
How to run a GitHub Pages blog from a private staging repo with a publish.sh script — drafts in private, posts in public, and an identity that's not trivially traceable back to you. A practical walk-through, not a manifesto.
Dot Files and Mac Setup
A new-Mac setup checklist for the terminal-and-Neovim crowd: Ghostty, zsh, Oh My Zsh, yadm for dotfiles, Homebrew bundles, and the AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI) now sitting alongside the classics.
First Post
A short note on why I'm starting to write things down — partly the urge to document, partly a reaction to the Elon-beast-mode mood of the moment. The rest will follow.