I work with AI, blockchain, distributed systems, databases, and infrastructure. The more I dig into these topics, the more I notice how much useful knowledge is buried in random docs, conference recordings, and conversations that never get written down properly.

CrackingWalnuts is my way of writing the articles I wished I had when I was learning this stuff. Not surface level overviews, but actual deep dives that talk honestly about trade-offs instead of pretending there's always one right answer.

Everything here comes from something I've built, debugged, or spent way too long reading papers about. If it helped me understand something better, hopefully it does the same for you.