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Edgar Nahama Alochi

Software engineer and founder at Tinker Digital. I write about production systems, AI, payments and the messy parts of building software.

Location Münster, Germany Joined Joined on  Personal website https://edgar.co.ke github website twitter website

Education

14+ years of production systems, startups, failure, rebuilding and shipping software.

Work

Founder at Tinker Digital and Tinker Payments. Software engineer/architect.

Open Source in the Age of AI: When Slop Floods the Swamp

Open Source in the Age of AI: When Slop Floods the Swamp

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The Best Line of Code Is the One You Never Write

The Best Line of Code Is the One You Never Write

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A Practical Critique of Service Meshes: Trade-offs, Pitfalls, and When *Not* to Use One

A Practical Critique of Service Meshes: Trade-offs, Pitfalls, and When *Not* to Use One

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When Software Decays and AI Accelerates Complexity

When Software Decays and AI Accelerates Complexity

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Vibe Coding Is Cheap. Engineering Remains Expensive.

Vibe Coding Is Cheap. Engineering Remains Expensive.

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The Great Simplification: Why Your Database is Your Best Cache

The Great Simplification: Why Your Database is Your Best Cache

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The Cost of a Promise

The Cost of a Promise

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Learning to Think in Sets, Not Loops

Learning to Think in Sets, Not Loops

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The Death of Junior CRUD Development

The Death of Junior CRUD Development

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Environments Are Not Features

Environments Are Not Features

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Engineering Beyond the Keystroke: Why the Future Belongs to Systems Thinkers

Engineering Beyond the Keystroke: Why the Future Belongs to Systems Thinkers

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Post Mortems and Other Corporate Rituals

Post Mortems and Other Corporate Rituals

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Managing AI (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves at Standup)

Managing AI (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves at Standup)

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The Weight of Unused Knowledge

The Weight of Unused Knowledge

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The Economics of Local LLMs: Why Practical Models Win in African Tech

The Economics of Local LLMs: Why Practical Models Win in African Tech

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How to Kill a Great Product with 100 Good Ideas

How to Kill a Great Product with 100 Good Ideas

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Your AI Agent Made a Decision. Now Prove Why.

Your AI Agent Made a Decision. Now Prove Why.

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