Edgar Nahama Alochi

Software engineer and founder at Tinker Digital. I write about production systems, AI, payments and the messy parts of building software.

Münster, Germany Joined on Jul 6, 2026 https://edgar.co.ke

Education

14+ years of production systems, startups, failure, rebuilding and shipping software.

Work

Founder at Tinker Digital and Tinker Payments. Software engineer/architect.

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Sep 30

The API is a Promise: Designing for Systems You No Longer Control

#article #apidesign #architecture #bestpractices

3 min read

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Edgar Nahama Alochi

Sep 28

What Experience Teaches Engineers to Optimize

#article #architecture #backend #bestpractices

8 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Sep 24

The Cost of Cleverness: A Backend Engineer’s Guide to Strategic Simplicity

#note #architecture #bestpractices #cleancode

8 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Sep 14

The Unboring Truth About Boring Tech: How Startups Accidentally Build Research Labs

#ai #casestudy #webdev #workplace

6 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Sep 6

The Founder’s Trap: Shipping Fast Without Borrowing Against Your Future

#article #architecture #bestpractices #casestudy

9 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Aug 22

Routing in Go Part 3: The last upgrade

#note #apidesign #architecture #tutorial

9 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Aug 22

Routing in Go Part 2: Upgrading the server so it behaves like a grown up

#note #apidesign #architecture #tutorial

8 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Aug 22

Routing in Go Part 1: A small server you can grow without rewriting at midnight

#note #apidesign #architecture #tutorial

9 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Aug 1

The Role of Clear Documentation in Team Velocity

#note #architecture #bestpractices #documentation

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 31

Designing for Change, Not Control

#article #architecture #backend #frontend

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 29

How to write technical posts that survive AI noise

#article #ai #mistakes

10 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 29

The Weekend Gold Rush and the Graveyard It Leaves Behind

#casestudy #ai #career #writing

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 28

Chaos engineering essentials for small teams

#architecture #systemdesign #webdev #software

4 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 27

When to refactor vs rewrite

#bestpractices #systemdesign #webdev #programming

4 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 26

NASA's Rule of 10: The rules of programing that put flying metal in orbit

#bestpractices #go #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 25

A Small, Annoying Reminder About MySQL, Next.js, and Reality

#database #sql #typescript #nextjs

2 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 22

Understanding Next.js Page Caching (with a real example)

#note #caching #frontend #typescript

2 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 22

Making Next.js Behave: Practical Notes on Performance, Architecture, and Not Shooting Yourself

#note #caching #frontend #mistakes

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 21

Open Source in the Age of AI: When Slop Floods the Swamp

#note #ai #bestpractices #casestudy

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 20

The Best Line of Code Is the One You Never Write

#note #ai #architecture #bestpractices

2 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 20

A Practical Critique of Service Meshes: Trade-offs, Pitfalls, and When Not to Use One

#note #architecture #designpatterns

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 20

When Software Decays and AI Accelerates Complexity

#note #ai #architecture #bestpractices

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 16

Vibe Coding Is Cheap. Engineering Remains Expensive.

#note #ai #research

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 15

The Great Simplification: Why Your Database is Your Best Cache

#note #architecture #postgres #systemdesign

2 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 13

The Cost of a Promise

#article #apidesign #architecture

1 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 12

Learning to Think in Sets, Not Loops

#note #database #sql

2 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 11

The Death of Junior CRUD Development

#ai #programming #beginners #career

4 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 10

Environments Are Not Features

#note #apidesign #architecture #designpatterns

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 10

Engineering Beyond the Keystroke: Why the Future Belongs to Systems Thinkers

#ai #webdev #programming #productivity

5 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 9

Post Mortems and Other Corporate Rituals

#article #bestpractices #founders

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 9

Managing AI (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves at Standup)

#discuss #ai #career

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 8

The Weight of Unused Knowledge

#article #casestudy #founders

2 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 8

The Economics of Local LLMs: Why Practical Models Win in African Tech

#ai #productivity #machinelearning #llm

5 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 7

How to Kill a Great Product with 100 Good Ideas

#webdev #product #ai

3 min read

Edgar Nahama Alochi

Jul 6

Your AI Agent Made a Decision. Now Prove Why.

#ai #programming #productivity #automation

6 min read

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