Essays and builds

Building Beautiful Terminal UIs with Bubble Tea

A practical guide to building interactive terminal applications in Go using the Bubble Tea framework and the Charm ecosystem.

Concurrency in Go: Goroutines, Channels, and Select

A deep dive into Go's concurrency primitives — goroutine lifecycle, channel patterns, the select statement, and real-world idioms.

Go's net/http: A Complete Guide to Building REST APIs

Building production-ready REST APIs using only Go's standard library — middleware, routing, JSON, and testing patterns.

Beyond Chat: Discovering Jules and Google's Agentic Future

My journey from standard AI assistants to Google's Jules, and why the async agent model changes everything for developer productivity.

Agentic Self-Building Loop

Architecting a closed-loop agentic system using Azure, Palantir Foundry, and GitHub Copilot to automate parts of the development lifecycle with human-in-the-loop consultation.

13 Engineering Laws Every Builder Should Know

Named principles that explain why software systems and organisations behave the way they do.

Rebuilding DivineForge: From Hugo to Next.js App Router

Standing Up DivineForge as a Work Log

Shipping Roadside Assistance in Bank-Owned Insurance

Smart Home with Zigbee — A Malaysia Context

Building a reliable smart home network using Zigbee, Tuya-compatible devices, Google Home, and a Zigbee gateway — designed for a Malaysian home.