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Building a Real-Time Power Outage Monitor with ESP32 and Slack

Mar 17 · 3 min read · The moment of realization happened in Singapore. I was thousands of miles away from home, enjoying a trip, when I went to check my home CCTV footage through my phone. The screen stayed black. "Connect

Debugging and Stopping Infinite Render Loops in React

Feb 2 · 4 min read · Infinite renders are not magic bugs — they are deterministic feedback loops. Once you understand why a render retriggers itself, they become easy to reproduce, debug, and prevent. This post walks through a step‑by‑step mental model to stop the “Maxim...

Rebuilding My Static Blog with Build-Time Data and Instant Search

Jan 29 · 4 min read · Static sites are supposed to be fast, simple, and reliable. But over time, my personal blog started behaving like a dynamic app - runtime API calls, pagination logic everywhere, and fragmented view counts spread across platforms. Last week, I rebuilt...

My 7 Aspirations as a Software Engineer in 2026

Jan 25 · 4 min read · 2026 feels like a genuine inflection point in my software engineering journey. By February 2026, I will have completed four years as a professional engineer, starting with my first full-time role at CloudAnswers in February 2022. At this stage, my as...

Realtime Deploy Notifications in Next.js with Toasts

Jan 24 · 3 min read · Ever deployed a new version of your app and wished your users got notified instantly while they’re still using the old one? In this post, I'll show you how I built a live build checker in my Next.js app that detects when a new deployment is live and ...