5 September 2026
One codebase for a subscriber portal and a mobile app
Why ISPs end up maintaining the same features twice, and what changes when the web cabinet and the apps share a codebase.
2 min read
Blog
Notes from the work — mostly cross-platform development and the telecom systems behind it.
- 30 August 2026
The microbenchmark told me to do the wrong thing
Tuning a WebAssembly plugin host: a setting that measured 23% faster on one thread and halved throughput under concurrency.
4 min read
- 19 August 2026
Rewriting a hobby bot in Rust, two years in
A Telegram bot written in Python in 2021, rewritten in Rust in 2023. What the rewrite actually bought, and what it did not.
3 min read
- 12 August 2026
What crossing the WASM boundary costs
Streaming request bodies into WebAssembly plugins made ignoring a body 300x cheaper and reading one 5x more expensive. Also: the sandbox has no clock.
3 min read
- 29 July 2026
Self-hosting variable fonts in an Expo web build
Expo injects its own font CSS at runtime, and it ships TTF. Replacing that with a self-hosted variable WOFF2 is worth the detour.
3 min read
- 15 July 2026
Maintaining the dependency yourself
A small Ogg Opus crate that my bot depends on, and what changed once I stopped waiting for someone else to fix it.
3 min read
- 8 July 2026
A bundle diet, one commit at a time
Four weeks of shrinking a cross-platform app's web bundle. The biggest wins were things that should never have been in there.
3 min read
- 24 June 2026
The person who keeps it running
On maintaining twenty-year-old billing systems whose original authors are long gone, and why that work is worth taking seriously.
3 min read
- 10 June 2026
Accepting user content means accepting a queue
A typing game where players submit the texts. The feature took a week; the review flow is what actually needed designing.
3 min read
- 27 May 2026
The deadlock I fixed three times
A rare hang in a Telegram bot's duel system, three hopeful fixes that treated the symptom, and the one line of type that was actually wrong.
4 min read