Writings

“Rumblings of a Young Man.”

11 Oct 2026 Vol. 06 · Hype Check · Chapter #1 The Indie Software Gold Rush Was Always a Lottery. AI Just Sold More Tickets. AI made building software almost free, so everyone's building. Here's what that does to the people trying to make a living from it. 6 min · an espresso ai · indie hacking · saas · software industry 11 Oct 2026 Vol. 06 · Hype Check · Chapter #2 Vibe Coding Won't Kill Photoshop. It's Killing Something Else. Everyone's angry at Adobe and Sony, and anyone can build an app in a weekend now. So why are the incumbents posting record revenue? 6 min · an espresso ai · vibe coding · software industry · creative tools 20 Sep 2026 Vol. 03 · Under the Hood · Chapter #4 What SQLite Is Actually Doing It's one file, a pile of 4 KB pages, and a few B-trees. Open it up and see how SQLite stores, finds, and safely writes your data. 10 min · a cup sqlite · databases · internals · b tree 9 Aug 2026 Vol. 01 · Point of Sale for Kenya · Chapter #2 Building a Desktop POS with Tauri That Survives Kenya: From One Till to Many Branches A ground-up architecture for a Rust and Tauri point of sale system built for Kenyan SMEs: offline-first by default, RBAC that still works when the server is unreachable, and a module system you can add to or strip down per shop. 25 min · a pot tauri · pos · rust · offline first 22 Jul 2026 Vol. 01 · Point of Sale for Kenya · Chapter #1 Building a Heavy, Extensible Desktop App with Tauri and React Four ways to let a Rust desktop app grow new capabilities after it ships, worked through against the same use case, with the tradeoffs each one actually costs you. 15 min · a cup tauri · react · rust · desktop apps 15 Jun 2026 Vol. 03 · Under the Hood · Chapter #3 What Git Is Actually Doing You probably haven't bothered to understand git. You should. Probably. 8 min · a cup git · internals · version control · tools 14 Nov 2025 OptiBiz AI Intelligent Business Optimization Assistant The first-place winner in the Business category at JKUAT 2025 Hackathon an AI-driven tool for startup product design and business decision optimization. 5 min · an espresso ai · business · hackathon · product design 5 Oct 2025 Rebuilding the Internet: The Promise and Potential of Web3 Learn how Web3 could give you more control over your data, privacy, and online experiences, making the internet fairer and more open. 6 min · an espresso Web3 · Blockchain · Decentralization · Internet