Journal

Notes on full stack engineering, architecture decisions, and systems thinking.

2/14/2026javascriptwebtooling

text2token: From Plain Text to Byte Tokens

Why I built a tiny text-to-token converter and what it teaches about how text is represented internally.

2/10/2026architectureengineering

Why clear architecture and operational rigor beat trend-driven implementation.

1/28/2026distributed-systemsfull-stack

Even small products should be designed with eventual distributed complexity in mind.