Writing

Notes on systems, data, and building things that expose their own reasoning.

Server-side hooks turn a dumb Git remote into something that can enforce policy before history changes.

git push does not upload your project

A push is not a folder upload. It is Git sending missing objects and asking the remote to move a branch reference.

A small GitHub without GitHub: one Linux box, one bare repository, and the first useful boundary between Git and the product built around it.

Constitution, legislature, judiciary, black market. Everyone sees it. Nobody names it.

Before you pick Recharts or Chart.js, ask whether your chart should be made of objects or pixels.