Vinh Ho

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June 2026Craft

The year I stopped optimizing

On the quiet relief of shipping code that is merely good enough — and the year it took me to believe it.

May 2026Systems

A Redis clone taught me patience

Reimplementing something famous is less about the data structures and more about sitting with a bug for three days.

April 2026Craft

Reading code you didn't write

A field guide to the moment before you understand a codebase, when everything looks like a mistake.

March 2026Systems

In praise of the boring database

The most exciting thing a database can do is exactly what you expected, at three in the morning.

February 2026Algorithms

Contests and the code review

How competitive programming ruined, then fixed, my code reviews.

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