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Notes on building with AI.

Essays and engineering notes, from ML fundamentals to today's AI-native product building. Mirrored here from Medium .

January 18, 2026· AI

How I Built a Production POS SaaS with AI Without Creating AI Slop

Lessons from building a point-of-sale SaaS in ~two weeks using AI-first principles, while keeping production quality and avoiding bloated, inconsistent 'AI slop'.

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December 22, 2025· AI

The New Era of Software Engineering

Why AI is a genuine, structural shift in software engineering, not the usual hype, and why one person can now ship what used to take a team.

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October 31, 2023· AWS

ECS: A Definitive Guide (I)

A dead-simple, step-by-step introduction to running workloads on AWS ECS, starting with the fundamentals of ECS, Fargate, and task definitions.

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June 13, 2020· React

Deploying React Apps with Nginx

How to serve multiple React and Node apps from a single instance using Nginx as a reverse proxy, a practical deployment guide for teams running many concurrent projects.

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March 24, 2020· Machine Learning

Demystifying TensorFlow Estimator

What TensorFlow's high-level Estimator API does, why you'd use it, and how to train a model with pre-made estimators, input functions, feature columns, and training.

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October 30, 2019· Deep Learning

Visualizing Convolutional Layers in CNNs

How a convolutional layer applies kernels to an image to produce feature maps, and a quick PyTorch + matplotlib trick to actually see those feature maps develop as the network trains.

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July 29, 2019· React Native

Custom Fonts in React Native

With the new CLI it's easier than ever to add custom fonts to your React Native app, a quick guide using react-native.config.js and react-native link.

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