May 20, 2026
From PM2 to Systemd
Every developer who has worked with the NodeJS environment will probably have heard of PM2. After building a NodeJS …
I am Jidechi, a software engineer with a mad interest in software engineering and infrastructure for distributed and high-frequency environments. I am driven by one fundamental fascination: how humans trapped electricity in rocks and made them solve complex problems with ones and zeros.
Technical notes
Starting points
Mar 13, 2026
Migrating from CommonJs to ESM
I ran into an issue this week in a codebase that I have been an active contributor to for over 4 years. The codebase …
Oct 30, 2025
Cursor Base Pagination
The goal is to document a mental note for implementing cursor-based pagination using the following payload to paginate …
Aug 24, 2025
Building a Real-Time User Presence System
In this article, I intend to describe how I built a system for tracking users online presence.
Users in this case are …
Current focus
Building resilient systems and exploring technology.
This is my digital garden where I keep technical and philosophical notes, essays, and maybe working demos if I ever finish one before starting a new project.
The common thread is practical curiosity about software, distributed systems, and engineering.
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Some things I have come to believe
Aug 26, 2026
Life and Game Theory
In games, what you do depends on what others do, and what they do depends on what you do; each player is looking for the …
Jul 2, 2025
Love, Hate and Mathematics
Interestingly, the concept that made me fall in love with maths is the same concept that is making me hate mathematics,
Jan 2, 2025
Test
Having a digital space of my own where I can share my ideas, has always been on my mind.
Over the years I have use tools …