Architecture
Why certain tradeoffs win early, what we defer, and where system boundaries stay intentionally narrow.
Engineering Journal
Building a field notebook for places, visits, and decisions.
Product thinking, backend architecture, mobile tradeoffs, and the quiet mechanics behind Placefolio.
What this blog covers
Fewer announcements. More engineering notes that age well.
Product mechanics
How user behavior around visits, neighborhoods, and decisions shapes the actual data model.
Build notes
Tactical implementation logs from backend APIs, Android flows, auth, and release infrastructure.
Featured
First notes from the build.
Starting narrow: why Placefolio needs a calm backend before a wide feature set
A first-pass decision log on keeping auth, project storage, and revisions intentionally simple while the product shape hardens.
JWT claims that stay boring in production
Token design is only useful when validation stays predictable. This note frames the minimum claim set and the checks that matter.
Current notes
Recent lines of thought.
Backend
System architecture notes
Core domain edges for projects, revisions, members, and the API responsibilities around them.
Security
JWT auth design
Token issuer, audience, and expiration decisions that remove ambiguity from request handling.
Mobile
Android field workflow notes
The next piece to write: capturing place visits fast enough to be useful while standing on site.
Start here
Publishing decisions as they happen.
The archive is small on purpose. Each entry should explain one real technical choice clearly enough to revisit later.
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