Microsoft, Claude Code, and Strategic Distillation
A short read on why Microsoft's Claude Code rollout may have been less of a failed experiment and more of an R&D shortcut for improving Copilot.
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Original writing and migrated articles from previous publishing homes.
Enforcing Guardrails in Claude Code
Practical Claude Code guardrails for blocking dangerous shell commands, protecting secrets, requiring Terraform plan review, and enforcing test checks.
From Ticket Throughput to Product Responsibility
What the Product Engineer owns in 2026: product intent, agent pipelines, testing completeness, compliance, and production outcomes.
Owning Value in the Age of AI: Why Engineering Must Move Beyond Ticket Velocity
Why AI pushes engineering teams beyond ticket velocity and toward ownership of intent, judgment, quality, and delivered value.
Publication: Expanded Targeted Preconception Screening
A short note on my Journal of Medical Genetics publication about expanded targeted carrier screening and why data-driven family planning matters.
Striking the Balance: Quality, Time, and the "Uniqueness Factor" in Projects
How managers can balance quality, time, budget, and originality when deciding what makes a project worth building differently.
How We Built a Scalable, Secure, and Serverless SaaS Platform in Just 7 Weeks
A practical look at building Nova, a secure serverless SaaS platform for identity and physical access management, in seven weeks.
Features x Quality = Time
A short product planning reminder: features times quality equals time, and changing one side of the equation changes the others.
real time cloud dashboards, pubnub to the rescue
There are many scenarios that require a UI to be updated with long processes and / or stuff that goes on in the cloud - that require a special polling or infrastructure to communicate the information from the cloud to the browser / client UI. In serverless paradigms, this is a pain as "polling" for [...]
Browser POST to S3, serverless style
Uploading to S3 is very useful, but requires authorization and/or permissions set on the bucket access, and achieving this from a plain old browser is a pain as it requires the POST to be approved and signed prior to sending it to the bucket. All the implementations I have found require a server side component [...]
Making a wooden coffee mug fit for a carpenter
No process pix, sorry. This started as a piece of firewood, I saw it in a pile of firewood and just had to salvage it. It is Indian Rosewood, and it was beautiful. Indian Rosewood is really hard to carve, but it was worth it all - for it was a present I made with [...]
A squarish gift bowl
This was a brazilian hardwood that was leftover from a staircase build - and was thrown for firewood. I had to give it a new purpose All handmade with love 🙂
Some woodworks of 2017-8
A bowl made from reclaimed wood from a forest fire we had a few years ago... It is made from North Indian Rosewood
Backing up wordpress to S3 bucket with cron
So after doing several scripts for backing up wordpress to various places, and primarily S3 buckets, I figured I better put the script here so it is easier for me to find it the next time, and maybe it will be useful for you too 🙂 “Before you act for the greater good, you should [...]