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ENGINEERING
Why I stopped mocking the database
A production incident taught me more about integration testing than three years of tutorials.
6 MIN READ · 2026-07-02AIWhat building a fake AI assistant taught me about the real one
Designing the mock forced architecture decisions I would have skipped otherwise.
5 MIN READ · 2026-06-24TRAVELPacking for altitude: what I got wrong in Ladakh
Three things I'd leave behind and two I'd never travel without again.
4 MIN READ · 2026-06-10CAREERSystems thinking is the same skill in code and in life
The thread connecting a data pipeline, a photograph, and a trip itinerary.
7 MIN READ · 2026-05-28