Welcome

Hey, I'm Jye. I write code and occasionally words.

I got to ride the fintech rocket at Avoka until the acquisition, now building Nitric because I got tired of writing the same cloud boilerplate over and over.

This blog is just me working through whatever's in my head — usually new technology, occasionally about why certain programming paradigms make me irrationally happy, sometimes just random observations from life in Australia.

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• Your sign-up form is a weapon

  25 Mar, 2026

  How bots used our sign-up and forgot password pages to bomb real people's inboxes, and what we did to stop it. A practical guide to subscription bombing for founders and developers who think CAPTCHA is an "I'll do it later" task.

• Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

  5 Aug, 2025

  A deep dive into local-first architecture, triggered by wondering why Linear feels so fast. Looking at the technical implementation, exploring tools like Jazz and Electric SQL, and explaining why my next app might not need API endpoints.