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Ideas in code.
Stories from the workbench.

Full-Stack Software Engineer & Tech Blogger 👨‍💻

I build and write about software end to end websites, mobile apps, desktop tools, and AI-assisted features with long-form notes on how it all fits together.

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress. 🎨🌿"

- Sophia Bush

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PHP

Python

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21 hours ago 18

AI Architecture Programming

The AI App Stack in 2026: Models, Tools, Queues, Vector Stores, and Observability

An architecture map of a production AI application in 2026 model gateway, orchestration, queues and workers, the vector/cache/database data layer with the decisions that matter at scale.

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3 days ago 41

AI Programming

AI Coding Assistants: How to Use Them Without Destroying Code Quality

An opinionated guide to using AI coding assistants without wrecking your codebase where they shine, where they hurt, review discipline, quality, security pitfalls, and team norms that prevent AI debt.

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6 days ago 57

AI Programming

RAG Is Not Just Search: Chunking, Ranking, Reranking, and Hallucination Control

Go beyond naive vector search chunking strategies, hybrid keyword+semantic ranking with RRF, cross-encoder reranking, context assembly, and layered hallucination control, with each change helps.

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1 week ago 79

AI Databases Programming

Building a Private RAG System: Architecture, Embeddings, Vector DBs, and Evaluation

A full architecture walkthrough for a private, self-hosted RAG system ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector databases and the evaluation loop that makes it trustworthy.

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1 week ago 96

AI Linux Programming

Local AI in 2026: Ollama, vLLM, Docker Model Runner, and When to Use Each

An honest comparison of local AI tooling in 2026 — Ollama for laptops, vLLM for high-throughput GPU serving, and Docker Model Runner for container-native models, with a decision framework and VRAM sizing advice.

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1 week ago 82

Laravel PHP Programming

Building Modern Reactive UIs with Laravel 12 and Livewire 4: A Production Guide

A production-grade walkthrough of Livewire 4 in Laravel 12 — form objects, lazy components, Alpine interop, file uploads, Pest tests, and the deployment gotchas nobody warns you about.

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2 weeks ago 729

AI Programming

Claude Fable 5: A Clear-Eyed Look at Anthropic's New Flagship Model

A balanced, hands-on look at Claude Fable 5: how Anthropic's new flagship compares to Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6 on price, context, and capabilities, and when the 2x premium is and is not worth paying.

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2 weeks ago 128

AI Programming

How to Secure AI Agents Against Prompt Injection and Tool Abuse

A defensive engineering playbook for AI agents understand direct and indirect prompt injection, then lock agents down with least privilege, human-in-the-loop gates, sandboxing, validation

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2 weeks ago 191

AI Programming

MCP Explained Without Hype: How AI Tools Connect to Apps and Data

A plain-English technical guide to the Model Context Protocol, the problem it solves, hosts/clients/servers, tools vs resources vs prompts, transports, a minimal server, and when to adopt it.

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Series 🧭

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Featured series Complete · 16 parts

Learn Python by Doing: From Your First Script to Real Projects

A 16-part beginner-to-advanced Python syllabus: every lesson has runnable code in the browser, quizzes, and a matching topic in the free Learn Python Android app.

Start with part 1 View the series

What's inside

+ 11 more parts

8 parts

Build an MCP Server in Python

An 8-part hands-on track that takes you from the raw MCP protocol to a tested, secured, deployed server that Claude and other agents can actually use.

12 parts

Build Production LLM Apps with Python & FastAPI

A hands-on, 12-part track that builds from modern Python through FastAPI and into production LLM features, with runnable code in every part.

Journal ✍️

Personal reflections & notes

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3 weeks ago 121

The Weight of Arrogance and the Peace of Distance

Humility protects the heart from becoming what arrogance destroys.

2 months ago 359

Live to the Fullest in a World of Chaos

Live to the full in a distressed world. Find meaning in the small things, reflect on gratitude, work stress, faith, and everyday life and its beauty.

2 months ago 364

When the Heart Feels Heavy: Trusting What the Soul Can Bear ?

Sometimes I find myself asking a quiet, lingering question: how much can a soul truly bear? It is not always the loud, visible hardships that weigh the most.

2 months ago 390

The Two-Faced Among Us: How to Identify Narcissism and Keep your Peace.

Others may present a mask of goodness to others when in the streets yet display a completely different persona when at home. This article will discuss the psychology of two-faced behaviour.

2 months ago 275

For the Sake of God: When Giving Becomes Worship

A reflection on purifying our intentions in giving. When we help others, is it for recognition or truly for God ( Allah ) ? This post explores moving from transactional acts to sincere worship.

2 months ago 288

Relying on people more than the creator: A Personal Reflection

A personal story about the pain of misplaced trust in people and the profound peace found in relying more on God. A lesson in balancing human connection with divine dependence.

Book Reviews 📚

Books I've read & reviewed

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1 day ago 20

Non-fiction

Book Review

Mindset by Carol S. Dweck

The book that put a name on something most of us have been doing wrong for years. Not flashy, not new now, still essential.

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5 days ago 43

Fiction

Book Review

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

A short fable about following the work you were meant to do. I came to it late and was surprised by how much it earned its reputation.

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1 week ago 65

Non-fiction

Book Review

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

A young neurosurgeon writes about dying while still trying to figure out how to live. Quiet, exact, devastating.

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2 weeks ago 214

Non-fiction

Book Review

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

A short, sharp book that argues meaning is the thing worth organising your life around. Forged in the worst conditions imaginable, written with the gentleness of a clinician.