Writing · 3 posts
Notes on things I built, and what they taught me.
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One Belang route request, and a rate limit that counted in the wrong room
A two-minute explainer reel: the path a route request takes from your phone to the routing engine, what gets stripped out on the way, and why a backup rate limiter added nothing.
Choosing Belang's backend on a fresh grad's budget, and running it like a team
Where Belang's server lives and why it costs €11.50 a month, why routing runs on Valhalla, how the server stays private, and the issue-and-pull-request routine that keeps a one-person project honest.
Building Belang, a navigation app for Malaysian roads that doesn't follow you around
Three days, one tiger mascot and a lot of small pull requests: how the Belang prototype came together, what it gets right about privacy, and what is still sample data.