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Notes on what I've actually built and debugged — technical writing, not career commentary.
- Software Engineering13 min read
The Cost of Software Failure in an Era of Vibe Coding Across Different Domains
AI made writing code cheap, not failure. A tour of fourteen kinds of software, from aerospace to games, through the four questions that set the price of a bug, and what happens when vibe coding walks into each room.
- Nextjs6 min read
How to Stop Next.js 16 from Freezing Your Older PC (Linux & Windows)
Next.js 16's default Turbopack settings assume a modern multi-core machine with an SSD — on an older dual-core laptop with a mechanical HDD, npm run dev can max out the CPU and freeze the whole desktop. Here's the two-phase fix: capping worker threads, then routing .next onto a RAM disk.
- Docker3 min read
How to Stop Docker (PostgreSQL) from Freezing Your Older PC (Linux & Windows)
Docker's PostgreSQL container grinding your old mechanical hard drive to a halt on every save? A few docker-compose.yml settings let PostgreSQL batch writes in RAM instead — here's the exact config, and the one trade-off worth knowing about.
- Linux7 min read
Download More RAM? How ZRAM and EarlyOOM Saved My 8GB Linux Machine from Freezing
Pairing ZRAM's in-memory compression with EarlyOOM's proactive process-killing turns a budget 8GB Linux machine into a multitasking system that survives heavy workloads without freezing — here's how to set both up in under two minutes.