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Essays on engineering, learning, and the weird places the keyboard takes me. Unfiltered, occasionally edited.
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20 April 202613 min read
FeaturedMoving CediRates Off MongoDB
Why I migrated CediRates from MongoDB Atlas to Postgres and Redis running on a single EC2 instance, and what the project actually looked like on the other side.
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19 April 2026·4 min
The Night My Server Rebooted Itself Into a Loop
A story about one innocent systemd timer, one cursed config flag, and one very long Sunday night in Accra.
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27 June 2025·4 min
How I Taught Myself to Code (Even After Studying Tech in School)
A degree doesn't automatically make you a developer. Here's how I closed the gap between theory and actually being able to build things.
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10 May 2025·4 min
How I Stayed Motivated During Burnout
A personal journey through tech burnout, the kind nobody talks about honestly. What actually helped me survive it, and how I found my way back.
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