Hi, I'm Jewei.
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
I build software with the care of craft—minimal systems, deliberate details, and code I try to shape like art. Notes on what I'm learning and shipping along the way.
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Meet Claude Meter — Know Your Claude Usage at a Glance
I wanted to see my Claude Code usage before hitting the wall. So I built a macOS menu bar app — and learned that picking the right data source matters more than the parser.
Introducing TypeID PHP
Type-Safe, Sortable Identifiers for Modern Applications
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The Eight Levels of AI Adoption
A practical guide to how AI goes from answering questions to running systems. Most people say they 'use AI' when they mean they ask ChatGPT questions. AI adoption has levels.
The Spectrum of Software Makers
From no-code to Python to assembly language. As a software maker aspiring to build a business, what's your game plan?
Laravel Skeleton
The Laravel Skeleton offers a rapid and efficient way to start a new project by scaffolding a Laravel app with minimal setup.
They said PHP is dead
PHP in the Modern Web: A Relic or a Resilient Force. Here's my 2 cents.
Scale to Millions of Users
How to design a system that supports millions of users? What are the challenges to scaling it up to serve millions of users?
Database Primary Key
Choosing a database primary key between big integers, ordered UUID, and nanoid.