Scaling thoughtful code review when code is cheap
AI has lowered the cost of producing a patch, but not the cost of validating and owning it. The review system has to move around that new constraint.
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The Artisan's Journal
Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI
Staff engineering means multiplying others
How reviewing code at Sedona.ai brought me back to what my first Staff role taught me about multiplying others and unblocking a team.
Read noteWhy I joined Kable.tv to build ambient AI
The chance to combine real-time audio and video, AI, and the difficult questions of building technology for the home.
Read noteEngineering mentorship without prescriptive advice
The most useful mentors share stories, develop repeatable behaviors, and help people find a path that is genuinely their own.
Read noteScaling MediaSoup across SFUs with PipeTransports
How producer streams can be piped into a tree of MediaSoup routers, plus the signaling, keyframe, and lifecycle problems that follow.
Read noteWhat graceful SFU draining taught me after shipping
A technically sound design can still surprise adjacent systems. The work after launch changed how I think about infrastructure projects.
Read noteWhen Kubernetes needed an application-level escape hatch
Long grace periods protect users during normal deploys, but emergency shutdowns revealed surprising SIGTERM and SIGKILL behavior.
Read noteGraceful SFU draining without ending the call
Designing a distributed drain sequence where servers announce retirement, routers propagate state, and clients choose a safe moment to move.
Read noteWhy I’m joining Gather
Gather brings together the real-time systems I have spent my career building, the playful worlds I grew up loving, and the kind of problems I want to solve next.
Read noteStripe subscriptions are not PaymentIntents
What migrating Streamable from Card Element to Payment Element taught me about immediate charges, free trials, and measuring the outcome.
Read noteMentor the person, not a younger version of yourself
Comparison, ambition, and the subtle difference between helping someone follow your path and helping them discover theirs.
Read noteProduction observability as continuous testing
Tests validate the scenarios we can imagine. Production cohorts show whether the system works across the traffic, timing, and behavior we could not reproduce.
Read noteChoosing Fulbright when another door opened
Accepting a Fulbright scholarship meant stepping away from a career-changing opportunity and trusting that the door to the United States could open again.
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