Ramblings

Quick hits & experiments

These are the late-night ideas, travel notes, and post-debugging reflections I don't want to forget. Less polish, more honesty.

Reflective

Taxi Drivers and Freelancing

I recently took a trip to South East Asia and was amazed at the service of taxi drivers. In most places where tourism isn't a major source of income, taxis are a means of transportation. In Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand, taxis have evolved to become mor…

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Learning

React Native, and the Persistence of JS Devs

I've been putting off learning React Native properly for ages now, mainly thanks to having worked with Flutter, Swift and Jetpack Compose (and the Android View system before that). There was little to no use case to actually use it except for the love of…

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Rant

AI IDEs and Artificial Productivity

I've been using Cursor and Gemini for coding for some time now, and it gives off the impression of writing good code on a microscopic level. It works for the most part, and there's bugs every now and then that can be resolved easily. However, after workin…

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Rant

Social Media and Personal Voice

Lately, I've been more active on the more tech-savvy parts of the internet. It feels like every other post on LinkedIn, Reddit and any other platform with wide outreach is written by AI. The concept could have come from a human, but they gave the prompt t…

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Reflective

Advent of Code

Advent of Code is an annual event that's been running for around 10 years that gives out Christmas-related puzzles. I'd heard of it before, but never had the time nor desire to enter the challenge, mostly because December was a nightmare of a month everyw…

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Reflective

Impressions of Remote Work

Like many other tech workers, I chose this career because I wanted to work from the comforts of my own home. A couple months ago, when my seemingly distant plans to live abroad slammed into me like a truck does to an Isekai protagonist, I was torn away fr…

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Changelog

Ramblings!

Ramblings are here! I've been thinking about making blog posts mostly about rambling in a less professional capacity compared to my actual articles at https://koso.dev/blog , somewhat similar to DHH's posts. I'll most likely make a post every few days abo…

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