Deep dives into web development, microservices, philosophy, and human psychology. Basically sharing thoughts and lessons I've picked up along the way in tech and life.
Designing secure authentication systems requires walking a tightrope between seamless user experience and ironclad protection. Lean too far toward convenience, and you invite abuse. Prioritize security at all costs, and you frustrate legitimate users.
Artificial Intelligence dominates headlines today, sparking fierce debates about our future. Will AI become humanity's greatest tool or our replacement? The reality is more nuanced than either extreme suggests. Let's contemplate on how AI will reshape our world and why humans still matter.
Social media has transformed into a digital theater where billions perform daily. Some individuals chronicle every detail of their lives, while others maintain years of digital silence. Most of us occupy the uncertain middle ground, perpetually wrestling with a fundamental question: Is this worth sharing? Our motivations for posting—or choosing silence—are far more complex than they appear on the surface.
Building event-driven systems sounds straightforward until you hit the reliability wall. The nightmare scenario? Your data and events drift out of sync, leaving your system in an inconsistent state that's nearly impossible to recover from.
We witness it daily, and if we're brutally honest, we participate in it regularly: condemning others for behaviors we quietly excuse in ourselves. Whether it's corporate ethics or mundane daily choices, this psychological phenomenon permeates human interaction more deeply than we care to acknowledge. This is moral hypocrisy—perhaps the most pervasive yet unexamined contradiction in human behavior.
Discover the hidden psychological forces—relative deprivation and cynicism—that drive people to police others' celebrations and dismiss genuine achievements as "not big enough."