POSTS
Essays and notes on engineering, AI, and product.
From Idea to Impact: Shipping Fast Without Breaking Quality
Principles and systems I use to move quickly in product and engineering while keeping reliability high.
Practical GenAI: What Actually Works in Production
A field-tested checklist for building GenAI features that deliver value beyond the demo stage.
Designing for Clarity: Minimalism That Still Wows
How to create interfaces that feel effortless using motion, hierarchy, and constraint.
Spatial Computing Is Just Getting Started
Why the shift from screens to spaces is the most important platform transition since mobile, and what builders should pay attention to right now.
I Replaced a Unity Pipeline with WebXR. Here's What Happened.
A real story of migrating branded AR campaigns from Unity to a web-based stack. The tradeoffs, the wins, and why I would do it again.
Building AI Into AR: Practical Patterns That Ship
How to combine ML models with AR experiences in the browser without melting the user's phone. Latency budgets, model selection, and fallback strategies.
Real-Time Multiplayer on the Web: Architecture That Scales
Lessons from building web-based multiplayer games with Colyseus. State sync, client prediction, and the decisions that matter at scale.
What Teaching CS Taught Me About Writing Better Code
Lecturing at a university forced me to explain things clearly. That clarity leaked into my code, my architecture, and my career.
LLMs as a Creative Partner in Game Design
Where large language models actually help in game development - and where they confidently lead you in the wrong direction.
Next.js at Scale: Patterns I Keep Coming Back To
App Router, React Server Components, ISR, and edge middleware. The patterns that survive contact with real users and real deadlines.
The Stack I'd Pick in 2026
An opinionated, pragmatic stack for shipping web products fast. No hype. Just what works.
Designing for Immersion: UX Lessons from 50+ VR Projects
Principles I have extracted from years of building VR games and experiences. Comfort, locomotion, spatial UI, and the details that make presence feel real.
Side Projects Ship Faster When You Treat Them Like Products
How I shipped PiggyPing in a series of focused weekends by applying product discipline to a personal project.