Writing
Technical insights, QA strategies, and stories from the field.
October 14, 2026 · 14 min read · Technical
How Tally & Trace's projection engine grew from a pooled balance into card statements, spending wallets and loans, why shared 'entities' were replaced by single-owner records, tags and Drive-style shared accounts, and how every audit finding was reproduced before it was fixed.
Read more →September 2, 2026 · 4 min read · Technical
Our homelab monitors itself, but what happens when the monitor goes down with it? We built an external heartbeat to find out.
Read more →July 20, 2026 · 8 min read · Technical
Adding error and performance monitoring to Tally & Trace — off by default, PII scrubbed on both surfaces, and Session Replay deliberately left switched off. It's live and reporting, but there's no war story yet: the interesting part is the config, not the outcome.
Read more →July 19, 2026 · 4 min read · Technical
The cash-flow timeline used to pool every account into one balance. Now it routes each bill primary→overflow and tells you exactly which account can't cover what — plus credit-card statement modelling, hardened auth, and what's coming next.
Read more →July 13, 2026 · 10 min read · Technical
Our budget app faithfully computed a reassuring month-end total — and was blind to the mid-month moment where the bills come due before payday. Here's how we reworked the forecast engine to model the one number the spreadsheet actually existed to compute.
Read more →June 13, 2026 · 9 min read · Technical
The same security goals as the portfolio pass — dependency hygiene, security headers, a CSP, and abuse protection on public endpoints — re-derived for a Cloudflare-native stack. KV instead of Upstash, no honeypot, and an HSTS gate that hostname detection couldn't solve.
Read more →June 12, 2026 · 5 min read · Technical
Closing out Dependabot alerts, adding security headers and a CSP, and putting rate limiting + a honeypot in front of our contact form — durable rate limiting via Upstash Redis.
Read more →June 11, 2026 · 4 min read · Technical
How we got the StudioSC portfolio site to QA Verified — fixing a drifted Playwright suite, tightening locators, and getting all 40 tests green across five browsers.
Read more →June 10, 2026 · 6 min read · Technical
Unifying calendar, weather, fitness, sleep, and more into one edge-deployed dashboard — built entirely on the Cloudflare developer platform, on free tiers.
Read more →February 24, 2026 · 5 min read · Technical
Building a type-safe monorepo for personal and business financial tracking to replace our aging Google Sheets
Read more →February 18, 2026 · 4 min read · Technical
A modern Next.js portfolio showcasing our duo approach to software development and quality assurance
Read more →February 15, 2026 · 1 min read · Non-Technical
A personal journey of training, perseverance, and crossing the finish line
Read more →January 15, 2024 · 1 min read · Non-Technical
Our first blog post introducing StudioSC and our mission
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