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Patterns for Writing Efficient Queue Consumers

Practical patterns for designing queue consumers that actually scale: decoupled polling, semaphore concurrency, and priority-aware buffers.

April 12, 2026

Visualizing GitHub in Real Time on My Homepage

I wanted a living background for my personal site. So I built a real-time code rain visualization powered by GitHub's event stream, SSE, and some physics.

March 27, 2026

I Vibe Coded a VPN to Watch Football

FanCode blocked my VPN during the Carabao Cup final. So I built a CLI that deploys self-hosted Tailscale exit nodes on AWS, Hetzner, or GCP in one command.

March 23, 2026

Using Claude to Clean Junk Apps on Android

My parents' Android phone had 600+ apps flooding notifications. Claude connected via ADB over WiFi and bulk-uninstalled the junk in 30 minutes.

March 13, 2026