Insights on Architecture & Community
Practical field notes on distributed systems, managing webhook edge cases, and running long-term developer unconferences in West Africa.
One Number, Many Units: How We Model Inventory for POS Systems That Sell By the Carton and the Piece
Most inventory tutorials assume a business sells items the way it buys them. Real shops don't. Here's the base-unit model that keeps stock counts honest when a carton, a pack, and a single piece all need to hit the same number.
Why I Kept the Hotel Management System and Restaurant POS as Separate Products
It would've been easier to bolt hotel operations onto an existing POS and ship one bigger system. Here's why I didn't, and what that decision was actually protecting.
What Barcamp Takoradi Taught Me About Building Tech Community Outside Accra
Most conversations about Ghanaian tech community default to Accra. Building one from Takoradi means solving a different problem, and it changes what "success" for a community event even looks like.
Running a Company While Finishing Your Final Year: What Actually Has to Give
You can't add "founder" to a final-year student's schedule without something else shrinking. Here's what actually gave, and what I'd protect again if I had to choose.