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The Gaps We Carry
Forty-two parables on how systems fail
Two full buckets, and the rope for the one that isn't there.
The same village, a year on. The well works. There is a second well past the ridge now, a mill that takes orders, and a man who spent thirty years building these things before he came home.
Beginnings at the Well
Thirty-five parables on how things get built
If you want to understand how systems actually work, not the code, the thing underneath it, this book teaches it through parables instead of manuals.
Nobody in the village was ever thirsty for water. They were thirsty for the morning it was costing them: the half day's walk, the barrels, the neighbour you had to ask and then remember asking.
Interests & Passions
The things I read about, tinker with, and write about — inside and outside of work.
System Architecture
Fascinated by how large-scale systems are designed: microservices, event-driven patterns, distributed databases, and the trade-offs that make or break a platform at scale.
Artificial Intelligence
Exploring how LLMs, machine learning, and AI agents are reshaping what software can do, especially in complex, regulated environments like healthcare.
Healthcare Technology
Fascinated by the unique challenge of building technology in high-stakes, regulated environments where reliability and safety are non-negotiable.
Data Engineering
The data layer underneath every AI system: streaming pipelines, feature stores, data lakes, and the infrastructure that keeps everything trustworthy and observable.
Tech Skills for Everyone
I believe practical tech skills should be accessible to anyone. From SQL and Python to Power Automate, LLMs, and system design — skills that actually matter today.
Teaching & Virtual Gurukulum
Learning sticks when you do it. The Virtual Gurukulum is my attempt to create hands-on, interactive learning for the skills shaping the current tech landscape.
What I
Believe In
A tech enthusiast who spends time exploring, building, and sharing. Not here to sell anything. Just learning out loud and helping others do the same.
Learning by Doing is the Only Way
Reading about SQL is fine. Writing your first SELECT and seeing actual rows come back is transformative. Every concept sticks harder when your hands were involved in learning it.
Technology Should Serve People
The best systems disappear into the background. They make people's lives easier without demanding their attention. Technology that demands to be noticed has usually failed.
AI is a Tool, Not an Answer
Large language models are genuinely remarkable. They're also genuinely unreliable without the right architecture, evaluation, and human oversight. The people building AI responsibly are the ones who respect both sides of that sentence.
Sharing Knowledge Compounds
One article that helps someone understand a hard concept pays forward in ways you can't predict. I write because it makes me think more clearly, and because someone out there is searching for exactly what I once struggled with.
Faith Shapes How I Think
I'm a Christian. The daily practice of reading scripture and meditating on the Word of God shapes how I see complexity, design, work, and other people. It's not a separate compartment, it's the foundation.
The Holy Bible
The book I read every day. Not because I have to, but because the Word of God grounds how I think about everything else: complexity, work, people, time. The foundation under all the other reading.
Virtual Gurukulum
An ancient idea, rebuilt for today. Sit with Master Baisil, ask questions, write real code, get instant feedback. No videos. No slides. Just you and the craft.
Git is the tea. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket are the shops. Learn everything in a master-disciple story.
From your first SELECT to joins, aggregates and real query challenges — with live feedback.
Write real Python in the browser. Variables, loops, functions, OOP — taught in dialogue.
Build automated workflows step by step. Triggers, conditions, approvals and connectors.
Design scalable systems like the pros. Load balancers, caches, queues and trade-offs.
Prompting, RAG, fine-tuning and deploying language models in production.
Core machine learning concepts, models, training loops and practical applications.
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Latest Articles
A Flying Car, A Merger And A Million Satellites. I Think They Are One Plan, Not Three Stories.
In one week Musk showed a flying car and floated a Tesla and SpaceX merger, while SpaceX plans a million AI satellites. I think it is one plan, and it only works if the sky stays peaceful.
PHP Was Patched On Wednesday. The First Attack Attempt Came Four Days Earlier.
Two critical flaws in PHP were fixed on 21 October, and AI helped find them. The part I cannot stop thinking about is the first attack attempt, which came four days before the fix.
One Person Cloned Adobe With AI And Gave It Away. I Tried It, And Over 85 Percent Is Already There.
One person with AI rebuilt seven of Adobe's best known apps and gave them away free. I tried them, and over 85 percent is already there. The question I cannot put down is what happens on the day it is 100 percent.
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