# engineering

[Unlearn faster](https://alanvarghese.me/blog/unlearn)
2026-03-03 · 1 min read
When I started engineering seriously, I carried a lot of "correct" patterns in my head.

[Vibe-engineering an OpenAPI compatible API authoring tool](https://alanvarghese.me/blog/vibe-engineering-an-openapi-compatible-api-authoring-tool)
2026-02-08 · 7 min read
As an engineering lead, I spent most of my time architecting systems, writing issues, and translating business requirements into clean technical requirements which…

[Your website has a carbon footprint too.](https://alanvarghese.me/blog/carbon-footprint-of-web)
2025-06-01 · 3 min read
Every page load burns electricity — servers, networks, your user's device. That electricity usually comes from fossil fuels. An average webpage generates ~0.5g of CO2…

[Your users aren't IP addresses.](https://alanvarghese.me/blog/your-users-arent-ip-addresses)
2025-03-11 · 3 min read
Let’s get this out of the way first:

[Don't be a ticket engineer.](https://alanvarghese.me/blog/dont-be-a-ticket-engineer)
2025-01-19 · 5 min read
Imagine one day, you’re scrolling through your Jira tickets, and the latest ones are marked as resolved by AI. Why wouldn’t it be? If it had access to the code,…

[All writing](https://alanvarghese.me/blog)