Two desks. One curious engineer.

Practical notes about engineering judgment, product delivery, work, attention, and the ideas that survive contact with a difficult Tuesday.

13 published notes

02.A / Editorial desk

Engineering notes

Code review, architecture, product judgment, accessibility, and shipping software with standards intact. Mostly intact.

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How to Review Agent-Written PRs Without Lowering the Bar

A practical review workflow for AI-assisted pull requests: smaller diffs, sharper checks, better evidence, and human accountability.

Apr 06, 20267 minAI Agents / Code Review

Engineering Decision Docs That Teams Will Actually Read

A practical template for writing decision docs that clarify options, trade-offs, and risks before the team wastes another meeting.

Mar 20, 2026

How Developers Should Write Portfolio Case Studies

A sharper way to write case studies that show judgment, constraints, trade-offs, and outcomes people can trust.

Mar 16, 2026

How I Scope Frontend Work When Everything Is Somehow Urgent

A practical way to cut scope, protect quality, and ship real user value without turning delivery into myth.

Mar 11, 2026

Code Review Comments That Actually Improve the PR

A practical rubric for reviewing code without drowning teams in noise, nitpicks, and fake rigor.

Mar 06, 2026

SEO for Developers: Practical Checklist for Next.js

A pragmatic SEO checklist for Next.js App Router: metadata, sitemaps, structured data, and performance.

Feb 03, 2026

Accessibility Fixes I Made That Took 10 Minutes and Helped Real People

High-impact accessibility tweaks you can ship fast: focus states, labels, semantics, contrast, and motion.

Feb 03, 2026

02.B / Editorial desk

Life notes

The Bhagavad Gita, modern work, decisions, attention, and ways to care without making chaos your full-time hobby.

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Dharma vs People-Pleasing in Modern Life

A practical reading of dharma as right action with boundaries, not approval-seeking disguised as kindness.

Mar 21, 20269 minBhagavad Gita / Dharma

Karma Yoga for Modern Work (Without Becoming a Doormat)

A pragmatic take on “action without attachment”: own the work, not the outcomes—or other people’s chaos.

Feb 05, 2026

The Three Gunas: A Practical Model for Your Mood, Energy, and Choices

Sattva, rajas, tamas—clarity, agitation, inertia. A no-nonsense way to diagnose your state and choose the right intervention.

Feb 04, 2026

Detachment Isn’t Apathy: How to Care Without Spiraling

A modern reading of “equanimity”: feel fully, act cleanly, stop letting outcomes decide your self-worth.

Feb 03, 2026

Arjuna’s Anxiety: Decision-Making When Every Option Feels Wrong

A grounded framework for tough choices: values, roles, consequences, and the smallest next action.

Feb 02, 2026

A 10-Minute Daily Gita Practice (That You’ll Actually Do)

A tiny routine: attention, intention, action. Built for consistency, not spiritual cosplay.

Feb 01, 2026