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Curious Rhythms

If it made me curious, it'll probably end up here. Published on Substack.

Mar 7, 2026

I Built a Tool to Never Forget What I Learn — Here's How to Use It

I kept solving the same LeetCode problems over and over. So I built Revise — a browser extension + dashboard that uses spaced repetition to tell you exactly when to revisit what you studied.

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Feb 11, 2026

The CAP Theorem in Practice — How Firestore, Cassandra, and Redis Cluster Actually Handle Partition-Tolerance Trade-offs

Moving beyond 'pick 2 of 3' to understand how real distributed databases make life-or-death decisions when the network splits.

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