One engineer, the entire stack, and 19 years of production systems behind the decisions.
I design every layer — data model, API, infrastructure, and interface. Afterwards, in the past, it was of course all then 'written' by hand, but I have in recent years learned to harnass AI effectively, and the mix of my experience and modern technology even more is possible, and at a fraction of the time.
Depth over breadth. My tools of choice: C# and .NET on the server, React and TypeScript on the client, Kubernetes and Postgres underneath. I've worked long enough in each to reach for the sharp tool instead of the new one.
Since 2007 I’ve built cloud software professionally for international clients and employers — production systems, real stakes, someone else’s name on the door. Blue Paw Labs is that same craft, on my own terms.
I don’t do complicated for the sake of it. Find the most direct honest route to the thing working, build that, then make it better once it’s real. That’s pretty much the whole method.
Performance is set to maximum, complexity is kept out of your way, and the design stays utilitarian. Anything that survives that test ships; anything that doesn’t is cut before it reaches you.
01// how the lab operates02const LabProtocol = {03 init: () => System.boot({04 performance: 'maximum',05 complexity: 'hidden',06 design: 'utilitarian'07 }),08 09 deploy: async (project) => {10 await Pipeline.optimize(project);11 return Edge.distribute(project);12 }13};14LabProtocol.init();