"I believe in human agency. Extreme optimism and extreme pessimism are both excuses for laziness." - Peter Thiel

My essays

• Pitfalls of best practices
• Against Bit Rot (Why & how I rebuilt my blog)

My projects

PCAS

I recreated the Apple seamless headphone switch feature on Android using Kotlin multi-platform.

DART

I took a stab at making real device testing cheaper, comprehensive and more realistic.

Prepup

Prepup is an app I co-created which helped ~120K Nigerian students in preparing for local exams.

Fluid

A server-driven UI (SDUI) platform I helped conceptualized and build at Delivery Hero.

Kitchen IO

A collection of my meal prep photos and cooking events.

Books digest

Papers digest

• Out Of The Tar Pit
• No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering
• Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn’t your OS?
• Hardware is the new Software
• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
• How Complex Systems Fail
• Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects on body composition and physical performance
• The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease
• What Satoshi Did Not Know
• How to Explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to Your Children
• Software Engineering at Google
• The Problem of Thinking Too Much
• Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective
• On Being Smart
• The Value of Science
• The Peril of Politicizing Science — Essay Summary
• Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future
• In Praise of Idleness
• The Erdós Paradox
• Invent More, Toil Less
• Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers)
• The Night Watch — Essay Summary
• Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes)
• On the Relevance of IP Address in the Tracking Ecosystem
• Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas? — Summary
• Reflections on Trusting Trust
• Go To Statement Considered Harmful
• End-to-end arguments in system design
• A Note on the Confinement Problem
• It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter
• Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation
• Password Security: A Case History
• The importance of stupidity in scientific research
• How the Hidden Hand Shapes the Market for Software Reliability
• The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
• Fast key-value stores An idea whose time has come and gone
• Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms
• A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
• On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
• Computers Then and Now
• The Emperor's Old Clothes
• Why the Internet only just works
• A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems
• Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
• A lightweight design for serverless Function-as-a- Service
• Identity-based Cryptosystems and Signature Schemes
• Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security
• Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing
• How do committees invent?
• How to Share a Secret
• How to Expose an Eavesdropper
• Don’t Thrash: How to Cache your Hash on Flash
• Blue Zones: Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived