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Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and the future of human productivity.

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Everything Around the Charge

The request that takes a payment is four lines. Everything that makes it safe to build a business on, so a retry never double-charges and a dropped webhook never loses an order, is the actual work. How I shaped Paybit's crypto payments API on the pattern Stripe proved.

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Building APIs with Hono

How I build type-safe APIs with Hono: the router, the Context object, Zod validation, centralized error handling, and end-to-end types shared with the frontend.

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