Writing

A sourced cost comparison: the BLS median wage against what a US developer actually costs an employer, Costa Rica's statutory 26.83% employer burden and the mandatory aguinaldo, and the counterintuitive finding that the overhead is lower here — the saving is in the base salary, not the benefits.

Seven architectural decisions from building autos.cr on a public registry I don't own — pure parsers, keeping unknown fields, snapshotting failures, separating store from publish from index, and why a dead source should return 503 rather than 404.

A sourced comparison of the two default choices for managed authentication — real pricing at 10k, 50k, and 100k users, the pros and cons of each, the lock-in nobody mentions, and why building your own login is a permanent job.

Everyone pictures the Pacific. Costa Rica's Caribbean coast — Limón, Puerto Viejo, Cahuita — runs on a slower rhythm, and it might be the best place to take a tech team to reset the pace of the work.

A practical, source-cited guide to taking a simple Python Lambda to production — idempotency, retries and dead-letter queues, cold starts, concurrency, observability, Terraform, and cost.

Why I built my own corner of the internet — and what I plan to write about, from AWS and Terraform to AI in software and the rainforests of Costa Rica.