Writing
Notes on building products, learning in public, and the tools I use along the way.
I’ve spent way too much time trying to find a payment provider that works from Cameroon. After trying global and local options, I kept hitting the same problems: limited availability, missing card payments, and frustrating experiences. It left me wondering: why aren’t we more represented in global payment infrastructure?
Trivue is now Tagviu. I moved the docs, CLI, MCP server, database, and API over, and I'm still stuck on taking payments as a developer based in Cameroon
I fumbled an interview and walked away with an uncomfortable realization: Just writing code and being technically competent isn't enough anymore. AI is changing the developer skillset requirements, and the ability to design, orchestrate, and validate AI-assisted workflows is becoming a serious differentiator.
Go's standard flag package stops parsing once it encounters a positional argument. After running into this twice, I built a small, zero-dependency parser that lets CLI flags appear anywhere in the input.
Why does ch <- 42 freeze an entire Go program? I ran into this while experimenting with channels and finally understood why unbuffered channels are more about synchronization than communication.
Writing code is only half the job today. Developers are increasingly expected to build an online presence, network, create content, and market themselves, all while keeping up with an ever-evolving tech landscape.
AI doesn't struggle with complexity as much as it struggles with ambiguity. The same unclear requirements, undocumented assumptions, and inconsistent abstractions that slow down new engineers can derail AI systems too. In many ways, AI is exposing technical debt we've learned to ignore.
AI demos are easy. Building AI features that users trust, return to, and genuinely find useful is much harder. This article explores why many AI products fail after launch and what separates a clever demo from a valuable product.
I outgrew the static portfolio model. So I rebuilt mine as Portfolio V2: one Next.js app with an AI assistant that knows my real data, a dashboard I actually use, and a blog I publish from; all backed by MongoDB and layered domain architecture. Most portfolios show what you’ve built. I wanted mine to behave like what I build at work.
The ecosystem is entering an era where CI pipelines, package registries, publishing permissions, and dependency trust all need to be treated as part of application security.
As AI tools become part of everyday development workflows, the bottleneck is shifting. Code is no longer the hardest artifact to produce, rather clear, unambiguous intent is. When working with AI, vague requirements really don’t just slow things down, they tend to multiply errors at scale.
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