2025
PhilosophyPhilosophical Undertones of Susanna Clarke's PiranesiPiranesi's House is more than a labyrinth, it's a model of the mind, perception, and the limits of what we can know.
19 Oct 2025
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PhilosophyThe Birth of Digital Consciousness: Reading Greg Egan's DiasporaGreg Egan renders consciousness as code, and makes it feel earned. Reflections on Diaspora's opening chapters: what it means for a mind to emerge, understand, and become a self.
26 Aug 2025
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TechnicalAWS RDS Subnet MigrationMoving a live RDS instance from public to private subnets sounds like it requires a full rebuild, it doesn't. Here's how to do it with minimal downtime using Multi-AZ failover.
5 May 2025
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TechnicalAWS Elastic Beanstalk Load BalancerA platform upgrade silently broke TLS for certain clients showing no logs, no errors, no trace. Here's why Elastic Beanstalk's "all green" status can hide infrastructure-level failures.
2 Apr 2025
TechnicalDebugging a Production NightmareI added one question to a hardcoded array and broke an unrelated part of production the next day. The culprit: shared mutable state silently leaking across module boundaries.
19 Mar 2025