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Things I figured out

Notes on systems, tradeoffs, and the occasional rabbit hole that turned into something worth sharing.

EngineeringApr 5, 2026

I Built a YouTube Watch-Together Extension in a Day

My friend and I wanted to watch YouTube together from different cities. Every existing solution required a separate website or screen sharing. So I built a Chrome extension that syncs playback with a toggle - Supabase Realtime, zero backend, one afternoon.

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8 min

Engineering

Why Most Caching Strategies Are Wrong

Everyone reaches for Redis the moment latency spikes. But most caching bugs are not performance problems - they are consistency problems nobody planned for.

Apr 16 min

Engineering

How I Killed 5 Hours of Sprint Busywork With a Python Script

Sprint status updates were costing my team 5+ hours every sprint. So I built a tool that pulls from Jira, runs it through AI, and posts a ready-to-read report in Slack - no human in the loop.

Mar 287 min