Infrastructure Design and Operations Decoded

This post contains some notes from my discussions with a few colleagues and friends over the past few months regarding how to design a system. I’m going to write it...

Nothing You Learn is Useless

Just yesterday, I found this essay which was written by Rob Pike from Bell Labs back in 2000. The main point of the essay is how systems software research had...

On the AI Hype

Not too long ago, I stumbled upon this blog post and found it pretty amusing. So I shared it with my friends and coworkers, and soon enough I immediately remembered...

Learning as a Software Engineer

Recently, I saw an argument in Indonesian tech Twitter where a relatively well-known tech leader in the Indonesian tech scene stated that if as a software engineer, we don’t learn...

Setting Up a Self-Sustaining System

Some time in January 2024, I was looking for videos on fish evolution and marine biology on YouTube, and I happened to stumble upon this YouTube channel by Father Fish....