My Ramblings

Here are some of my thoughts on things I'm learning or working on.

Nature as an Abstraction Layer: How Software Architecture Mirrors the Universe
Nature as an Abstraction Layer: How Software Architecture Mirrors the Universe
October 16, 2026

Hold up your hand and clench your fist. You just coordinated billions of cells without knowing a thing about atoms. That is nature's greatest design secret—one that software engineering copied word for word.

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AI Writes My Code Now — So I Built a Tool to Stop It From Trashing My Translations
AI Writes My Code Now — So I Built a Tool to Stop It From Trashing My Translations
June 5, 2026

When AI agents write most of your code, they work fast — and quietly trash your multilingual dictionary (i18n): hardcoded strings, orphaned keys, and hallucinated namespaces. Why I built i18n-sharpen with an AST X-ray engine, and what an 'AI-friendly codebase' truly means.

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Angular's Architectural Advantage in the AI Era
Angular's Architectural Advantage in the AI Era
May 1, 2026

React's unopinionated freedom was a paradise for human developers, but for probabilistic AI agents it turns into an architectural lottery. Here is why modern Angular's standardized steel rails are becoming the ultimate AI advantage.

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The Megamorphic Trap: When 'Putting Everything on One Belt' Jams the High-Speed Factory
The Megamorphic Trap: When 'Putting Everything on One Belt' Jams the High-Speed Factory
May 1, 2026

Everyone assumes using one universal tool for everything saves effort. Yet inside your computer, forcing one automated conveyor belt to handle every box shape jams the robot arm!

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The Abstraction Ladder: How Lifeless Electricity Becomes Text, Color, and Apps
The Abstraction Ladder: How Lifeless Electricity Becomes Text, Color, and Apps
April 30, 2026

A copper wire inside your computer only conducts electricity—it has no idea what the letter 'A' looks like. Climb the 6 remarkable steps that turn simple on/off switches into living software.

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The Truth About How Code Runs: The Story of the CPU Chef, the OS Manager, and the VM Factory
The Truth About How Code Runs: The Story of the CPU Chef, the OS Manager, and the VM Factory
April 29, 2026

When you double-click an app, what actually happens inside your computer? Step inside the 'hardware kitchen' to see how the CPU, RAM, and Operating System work together.

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AI Is No Longer Just a Tool — The Shift Toward Infrastructure
AI Is No Longer Just a Tool — The Shift Toward Infrastructure
March 9, 2026

From opening a chatbot tab in 2023 to plugging into a 'National Power Grid' in 2026: why hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing into underlying AI infrastructure, and what it means for builders.

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The AI Agent Era: Cursor vs Antigravity vs Claude Code
The AI Agent Era: Cursor vs Antigravity vs Claude Code
February 9, 2026

A comprehensive yet accessible breakdown of the three leading AI coding agents in 2026 — comparing the Iron Man Exoskeleton (Cursor), the Engine-Room Mechanic (Claude Code), and Mission Control (Google Antigravity).

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How Akamai & Cloudflare Fight a Million Bots Like Me: A Deep Technical Analysis
How Akamai & Cloudflare Fight a Million Bots Like Me: A Deep Technical Analysis
February 8, 2026

An in-depth yet accessible breakdown of how Anti-bot systems like Akamai and Cloudflare act as 'VIP nightclub bouncers' using Machine Learning, TLS Fingerprinting, and Behavioral Entropy to catch millions of bots daily.

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Lately People Worry About AI Domination... And What If It Does Everything?
Lately People Worry About AI Domination... And What If It Does Everything?
December 21, 2025

Dissecting the inside of an AI brain through a bowl of beef pho to see why it can never 'rebel and dominate humanity', and reflecting on a future where machines handle all physical labor.

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From a 1 Million VND 'Tuition Fee' on GCP to Learning AWS from First Principles
From a 1 Million VND 'Tuition Fee' on GCP to Learning AWS from First Principles
December 6, 2025

The painful overnight billing shock that cured my reckless click-ops habit and pushed me to master Cloud Architecture from First Principles.

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Use Biome Instead of ESLint + Prettier — Why Not?
Use Biome Instead of ESLint + Prettier — Why Not?
October 29, 2025

A plain-English look at why replacing 'two arguing inspectors running on Node.js' (ESLint + Prettier) with a single unified Rust engine (Biome) makes your formatting and linting up to 35× faster.

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PNPM – When Devs No Longer Wait for NPM to “Run Errands”
PNPM – When Devs No Longer Wait for NPM to “Run Errands”
October 29, 2025

A plain-English breakdown of how PNPM ends NPM's habit of copying the same 500MB supermarket into every apartment — saving gigabytes of disk space and blocking supply-chain malware by default.

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I ship 10× faster with AI — and still pass senior review
I ship 10× faster with AI — and still pass senior review
October 27, 2025

How to step up from a hands-on bricklayer to a 'Chief Architect & Conductor' when working with AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) — shipping 10× faster without drowning in spaghetti bugs.

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