DeepSeek V4 Pro Is Better Than I Expected
Field notes from using DeepSeek V4 Pro for real build work, where it shines, where it slips, and how I now route work between it and frontier coding models.
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Maybe You Don't Need Next.js
A practical reflection on choosing Vite over Next.js when the product does not need SSR, server actions, React Server Components, or SEO.
How We Are Building an AI That Reads Legal Texts So Humans Don't Have To
A look at the retrieval, grounding, and citation architecture behind Immigranta, an AI assistant for navigating UK immigration information.
Silence Is a Bug: Why the Backend Owes Its Users a Story
How narrating pod lifecycle events turned a silent Kubernetes log stream into an honest, trustworthy deployment experience.
Streams Aren't Requests: Three Production Bugs Hiding in One Line of Code
Three production SSE failures that reveal why client connections, background workers, and data sources need independent lifetimes.
When Kubernetes controllers fight over replicas
How two well-meaning automation systems kept deleting and recreating the same production service, and how we changed our GitOps setup to prevent it happening again.
Building Ruach Tech one layer at a time
The long-term vision for Ruach Tech, the products emerging from the lab, and the discipline of building while bootstrapped.
Welcome home
Why I am making this site the home for my engineering notes, writing, and professional work.
How the whispers of the unseen founded Ruach Tech
A reflection on faith, obedience, and how Ruach Tech began from a quiet conviction before it became a company or a product lab.
The Frontend Environment Variable Problem No One Really Solved
How REP replaces ad hoc runtime configuration scripts with a security-first protocol for browser applications.