Writing.

Field notes from a software engineer.

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  • case study
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    Ten months on PostChart

    PostChart is a custom Facebook page management SaaS I built solo for a client off Upwork — auth, a Redis-backed scheduler, Stripe billing, Meta verification, the whole thing. Ten months end to end: the decisions I'd repeat, the platform API that fought me, and what handing it off taught me.

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    Why I built my own CMS (and yes, Sanity would have worked)

    I built tabsircg.com on a CMS I wrote from scratch: two Next.js 16 apps, Firestore, Cloudflare R2, push-based cache invalidation. A hosted CMS would have been fine. Here's why I picked the long road anyway.