NOTES / 05
Writing from the workbench.
Short notes on engineering decisions, hard lessons and useful patterns.
Jun 20, 2026
From Minecraft Servers to Formal Engineering
How managing game servers as a teenager laid the groundwork for my professional career.
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Read note Jun 15, 2026Idempotency in Automated Scheduling
Tackling the most complex module in the MSC platform: automated weekly class generation.
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Read note Jun 10, 2026Orchestrating a Full-Stack Monorepo with Nx
How keeping Next.js and NestJS in a single repository streamlined our development process.
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Read note Jun 5, 2026A Hybrid Database Strategy: Prisma + Kysely
Achieving maximum type safety without sacrificing runtime performance using a hybrid ORM approach.
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Read note Jun 1, 2026The Transition from React SPA to Next.js App Router
Why we abandoned the traditional SPA model and adopted Next.js 16 for the MSC platform.
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