2025
Philosophical Undertones of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi Piranesi'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 · Philosophy · 4 min
The Birth of Digital Consciousness: Reading Greg Egan's Diaspora Greg 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 · Philosophy · 3 min
AWS RDS Subnet Migration Moving 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 · Technical · 3 min
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Load Balancer A 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 · Technical · 3 min
Debugging a Production Nightmare I 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 · Technical · 3 min