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I'm Sid, a software engineer who writes about code, performance, and the occasional philosophical tangent.
Latest Blog Posts
server-side vs client-side tools in llm apis
January 30, 2026
when building agentic applications with the anthropic api, understanding the difference between client tools and server tools is essential.
migrating to zig 0.15: the roadblocks nobody warned you about
October 24, 2025
i built a command-line security tool to analyze shell scripts before executing them (preventing those dangerous curl | bash situations).
analyzing ocaml patterns in a real web app: what melange code actually looks like
October 15, 2025
i built an options max pain calculator using melange (ocaml that compiles to javascript).
lateral joins: the rails optimization nobody talks about
October 09, 2025
i benchmarked lateral joins against window functions and N+1 queries for the classic “top N per group” problem in rails.
Debugging GitHub's Pinned Items Performance Issue in Safari
October 07, 2025
I recently encountered a frustrating performance issue on GitHub’s profile settings page.
More posts at sngeth.github.io