Short write-ups of decisions from real projects, and the reasoning behind them.
Letting AI grade, carefully
How AI grading at Skilladder earned its place. Rubrics first, two weeks in shadow, confidence scores and a one-click override.
26 October 2026 · 2 min readPending is not paid
Building Orderflow's payment layer. One interface for every provider, settlement from the ledger, and hard lines between pending and paid, and between unknown and failed.
26 October 2026 · 2 min readThe reliability work nobody asks for
Keeping Skilladder dependable through Nigeria's 3MTT programme and beyond. Durable queues, monitoring across 128 services and a careful move behind Cloudflare.
26 October 2026 · 1 min read