Essays
Essays, tips, and tutorials on design engineering, React, and building great products.
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April 30, 2026
How Popular AI Systems Use RAG to Deliver Better Answers
A portfolio is just a product with one user. Here's what building mine taught me about design decisions, scope, and shipping things that aren't perfect.
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April 28, 2026
Throughput vs Latency: How Real Systems Balance Speed and Efficiency
A honest look at the tools, libraries, and workflows that make up my daily design engineering practice — what works, what doesn't, and why.
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April 25, 2026
How Systems Manage Multiple Tasks: Concurrency vs Parallelism
Mobile development forces decisions that web development lets you defer. Working under those constraints changed how I approach every product I build.
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April 23, 2026
How DNS Works Behind the Scenes of Every Web Request
The handoff between design and engineering is where quality goes to die. Here's the workflow I use to keep intent intact from the first frame to the final commit.
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April 20, 2026
How Real-Time Apps Work: The Role of WebSockets
Most UI animation is decoration. The best animation is communication. Here's how I think about motion in product interfaces and what separates good animation from noise.
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April 16, 2026
Outcome Engineering: The Discipline of Building What Actually Matters
Most engineers build features. Outcome engineers build results. The distinction sounds small but changes everything about how you approach a problem.
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April 15, 2026
Understanding How SSO Actually Works Behind the Scenes
A honest look at the tools, libraries, and workflows that make up my daily design engineering practice — what works, what doesn't, and why.
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