Hi, I’m Ethan 👋

Welcome to my blog.

I write about engineering practice, system design, tools & productivity, and reading & life notes.

Hello World: the blog is live

Why this blog Ideas end up scattered across Slack threads, notes, and chats. A blog is a small forcing function: if I cannot explain it clearly, I probably do not understand it yet. What I plan to write Engineering practice: debugging stories, tuning, and lessons learned System design: distributed systems and platform thinking Tools & productivity: small automations that improve day-to-day work Reading & life notes: not everything is code Stack This site is built with Hugo and the PaperMod theme. Source and posts live in a GitHub repository; pushing to main triggers GitHub Actions, which builds and deploys to GitHub Pages. ...

2026-04-22 · 1 min · 141 words · Ethan