Happy PRs, and the Feedback Loop That Built It
Building a macOS menubar app to handle the flip side of agentic coding: a reviewer backlog that grows faster than notifications can keep up with.
Writing
Browse by tag →I build things to learn them. These are the write-ups.
The satisfies Operator: Drift, Widening, and a Very Niche Trick
A tour of TypeScript's satisfies operator: the obvious use for catching type drift, and the less-obvious combination with as const that keeps enum tuples narrow.
KafkaJS: Why Your Offset Commits Take Exactly Five Seconds
A 2:30 AM deep dive into KafkaJS offset commit latency and the technical workaround for bypassing its internal five-second transitive consumer delay.
Task Chaining and DX: Building a Convergent Async Ecosystem
Exploring the design philosophy behind Task.chain and how Anabranch positions itself between lightweight utilities and full-blown functional frameworks.
Anabranch: Error-Tolerant Async Streams for TypeScript
A look at the anabranch library ecosystem for async stream processing where errors flow alongside successes instead of killing the pipeline.
Bespoke Elixir: Building a Lightweight Web Framework
A deep dive into the custom-built Elixir webserver powering this very page.