Blog

Some of my thoughts on software engineering, building, and tech.

• I built my own AI code reviewer with Claude Code

  November 17, 2025

  How I built myself a code reviewer similar to Code Rabbit, Cursor Bugbot using Claude Code and a custom skill

• Relaunching my site

  November 4, 2025

  How I rebuilt my personal site with Astro, Resend, and AI tools

• Understanding Distributed Systems – Book Review

  August 21, 2022

  I recently finished reading Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo. I was quite impressed by the quality of the book. It is one of the best computer science books I’ve read so far. A ...

• Lessons learnt from publishing my programming course

  February 4, 2022

  I’ve been working on my course – Learn Programming with Go, One Game at a Time, for nearly a year & made many mistakes along the way.

• Learn Programming with Go, One Game at a Time

  January 8, 2022

  For nearly a year now, I’ve been building my first online programming course – it’s about learning to program with the Go (Golang) programming language. 👨‍💻

• Thread-Safety in Go – an Overlooked Concern

  December 28, 2020

  When you first start tinkering with concurrency in any language, what’s the most sought after goal is extracting the maximum output from the hardware you have available.

• Your Programming New Year’s Resolution

  December 25, 2020

  So it’s that time of the year when you make your new year’s resolution. As developers, that might revolve around filling some gaps in our understanding of systems we use or perhaps learning a new p...

• My thoughts on Java Concurrency in Practice

  October 5, 2020

  One of my key goals this year was to gain a good understanding of concurrency and multithreading. I’ve always had a tangent understanding of it at best. The book Java Concurrency in Practice was on...

• Eliminate the undocumented TODOs with todocheck

  July 18, 2020

  Yesterday, I released todocheck – a new kind of static code analyser for annotated TODOs.

• Managing Shared Components in Go Microservices with Fx

  April 11, 2020

  This article is part of the series Dependency Injection in Go using Fx