Senior SDE / Engineering Notes

Working notes on building reliable product systems.

I use this site to document concrete lessons from shipping software, especially around identity, AI auth, and media platforms. The goal is to share useful decisions, trade-offs, and practical patterns.

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Identity & Auth Systems

Sessions, authorization boundaries, secure defaults, and migration strategies.

AI Auth

Authentication and access control patterns for agents, tools, and API-to-API workflows.

Media Platform Engineering

Playback reliability, real-time pipelines, and platform-level performance trade-offs.

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Ai Auth · Apr 15, 2026 · AI Auth Field Notes

OAuth DCR in MCP Servers: Great DX, Real Security Debt

While building MCP servers, I found ChatGPT's OAuth Dynamic Client Registration surprisingly helpful for third-party onboarding. It also exposes a new class of security and governance risks worth discussing.

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Tech · Apr 1, 2026 · Building This Blog

Why I Chose Astro for My Blog

A brief look at why Astro is the perfect framework for content-driven websites in 2026.

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