AI Is the Best and Worst Thing to Happen to Junior Engineers
Junior engineers ship faster than any generation before them. They also skip the struggle that builds intuition. That tradeoff is going to cost us.
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Writing & Thoughts
Self-Hosting n8n, Supabase, and My Entire Automation Stack on a Hetzner VPS
A walkthrough of how I provisioned a Hetzner VPS with Terraform, deployed Dokploy, and self-hosted my entire automation infrastructure for the cost of a coffee per month.
Building LLM APIs in 2025: What Nobody Tells You
The unglamorous realities of building production APIs around Large Language Models. Latency, cost, context windows, and why streaming isn't optional.
I Automated My Social Media Content Pipeline with n8n and LLMs
How I built a workflow that fetches news, generates social media posts with an LLM, and schedules them automatically. My content robot works harder than I do.
n8n vs Make.com vs Zapier: I Tried All Three So You Don't Have To
An honest comparison of the major automation platforms in 2025. Spoiler: I ended up self-hosting n8n.
How I Helped Ship a Reimbursement API to Land Google
The story of building and launching a Reimbursement API for the US market at Fidel API. System design under pressure, zero outages, and what product engineering actually looks like.
Scaling an Ed-Tech Platform When Thousands of Kids Log In at Once
What happens when your assessment platform needs to handle a sudden tsunami of K-12 students during testing season. Hint: things break in interesting ways.
Norming, Calibration, and the Surprisingly Hard Problem of Fair Grading
Building the systems that ensure human graders actually agree with each other. More complex than it sounds.
That Time I Rebuilt a Bank's Entire Web Experience
My first big project as a frontend engineer: replacing a legacy banking web app in Brazil with Angular 7 and TypeScript. Customers actually liked it.