pixari.dev

Senior Engineering Manager focused on DX, AI-Driven Development, and Data-Driven Leadership. Building innovative digital products and inclusive engineering culture.

  • As pixari.dev continues to grow as my home for thoughts, tutorials, and deep dives into development, I realized I needed a dedicated, streamlined space for my professional background. Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of my new interactive resume: me.pixari.dev. Why a separate subdomain? Separation of concerns isn’t just a good coding practice; it’s…

  • I’ll be honest: I’m not a natural public speaker. I get nervous, I lose my place, and I talk too fast. I built BlaBla because I needed a teleprompter that felt like a supportive friend—not a complicated piece of enterprise software. It’s a free, no-signup, privacy-first web app designed to give you ‘calm confidence’ on…

  • Frustrated with over-complicated finance tools, I built a custom, privacy-first family budget app in just 3 days. Discover the tech stack I used, how AI accelerated the development process, and why building your own tailored solution might be the best way to manage family finances.

  • My twins just turned one. I’m done optimizing. A story about the privilege of vulnerability and why leaders need to break the facade of perfection.

  • AI promises a post-scarcity utopia, but ‘The Abundance Trap’ argues it actually reorganizes scarcity. While content costs collapse, the infrastructure becomes a digital feudalism where Big Tech is the landlord and creators are mere tenants. Learn why we are losing the ‘right to tinker’ and renting our own future.

  • The hype cycle is over, and the dashboard is flashing red. New forensic data from 2025 reveals a harsh truth: AI is making us type 55% faster but ship 19% slower on complex tasks. We are trading cheap syntax for expensive debugging. It’s time to stop “Vibe Coding” and face the physics of software delivery.

  • We are obsessed with AI writing production code, but we ignore its ability to write “disposable” support code. Here is how I used AI to build a temporary “Jig” to solve a complex frontend problem, and why the economics of throwing code away has finally changed.

  • Designing for a million users when you have ten isn’t strategy; it’s vanity. We hide fear behind “best practices” like microservices and complex abstractions, paying a tax on velocity for problems we don’t have yet. Stop hedging your bets. If you build the perfect architecture for a product that never launches, you’ve just future-proofed a…

  • I saved the biggest demo in our company’s history at 3:00 AM the night before the meeting. I felt like a god. I thought I was the glue holding the business together. It took me five years to realize the truth: I wasn’t the glue. I was the bottleneck. We need to talk about the…

  • I spent three days on that function. I remember the frustration. I remember the panic. But mostly, I remember the moment the logic finally clicked. Last week, an AI did the same work in four seconds, and instead of feeling efficient, I felt hollow. We talk a lot about velocity, but we aren’t talking about…