About
I’m Nixon. Software engineer by profession, though I’d rather call myself a problem solver — the job title is just where the problems happen to be paid for.
Anything logical fascinates me. Fixing a light bulb. Untangling a legal document. Figuring out why a distributed system is lying to me. Talking to someone until the actual problem falls out of what they said they wanted. It’s the same muscle every time.
I grew up in Dhaka. I live in Amsterdam now, and I’ve been here long enough that both places have a claim on me.
What’s here
This started as a tech blog. It outgrew that, and rather than start a second one I widened this one.
Work — Backend engineering, mostly. Distributed systems, Go, the parts of building software that don’t fit in a conference talk. What actually broke, and what I’d do differently.
Exploration — Things I’m trying that haven’t resolved yet. Local LLM inference on hardware I own. Agents that manage my own life. Half-finished ideas posted before they’re safe to post.
Life — Everything else that’s worth writing down. Amsterdam. Bangladesh. Building a life across two countries. Occasionally philosophy, when a thought won’t leave.
The three overlap more than the labels suggest. That’s fine. The blog is the place where they’re allowed to.
Why nixon1333
I somehow secured the same username on nearly every platform 😅 — so I took the domain too. Consistency has to count for something.
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