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Essays, tutorials, and short notes. No newsletter, no algorithm — just writing when I have something worth saying.

Articles

The Silent Burden: Understanding the Struggles of the Male Child in Africa

The African male child often grows up under intense socio-cultural pressure to embody strength, independence, and future economic responsibility, frequently at the cost of emotional development and educational continuity. Structural challenges—such as poverty, limited access to quality schooling, and early exposure to labor—intersect with rigid norms of masculinity that discourage vulnerability and help-seeking behavior. This combination increases susceptibility to risk-taking, disengagement from formal systems, and unaddressed mental health issues, ultimately shaping life outcomes and reinforcing cycles of social and economic instability.

#Thoughts#Wishes

4 min

2 months ago

Why I write code the way I do

A reflection on the aesthetic choices that shape how I build software — and why I think craft matters more than speed.

#engineering#craft#process

2 min

2 months ago

TIL: PostgreSQL's EXPLAIN ANALYZE is more useful than I thought

How I went from cargo-culting indexes to actually understanding query plans.

#postgresql#databases#performance

2 min

3 months ago

Building a type-safe API layer with Next.js App Router

How I structure API routes in Next.js 15 to get full type safety and clean error handling without reaching for tRPC.

#nextjs#typescript#api

3 min