Blog

I share my thoughts through occasional writing, covering topics that intersect technology, leadership, and the ever-evolving landscape of software engineering.

December 21, 2025

The Terraform Bootstrap Problem: How to Create Your State Backend Without Going Insane

The first real test of your infrastructure-as-code understanding: creating the Terraform state backend when it doesn't exist yet. My personal reference for handling the bootstrap problem across different scenarios. Covers production failure patterns, the bootstrap module approach that survives audits, migrating existing infrastructure, S3-compatible backend quirks, and a complete checklist. ~15 minutes read that might save you days of recovery work.

September 6, 2025

The Death of the Mobile Developer: AI Is Quietly Eating the App Store

Mobile apps ruled the last decade, but AI is quietly dismantling the foundations they were built on. From declining iOS and Android job postings to LLM interfaces replacing entire app flows, this piece argues the golden age of mobile development is over and what comes next might not even run on iOS or Android.