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How Managing a Wedding Fund Taught Me About Friction Discovery, Combinatorial Explosions, and Building Software

Most software ideas do not arrive as flashes of inspiration. Sometimes they arrive disguised as responsibility. For me, one of those moments came when I was tasked with managing contributions…

Martin Mwanawima June 6, 2026

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Documentation as a Retrieval Problem: Why Writing Notes Is Not Enough

We often assume documentation is about writing things down so we don’t forget. But experience shows a deeper truth: most documentation does not fail because it was never written —…

Martin Mwanawima February 26, 2026

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🪦 The Sarcophagus of Errors 🛠️

In the hush of the digital veins,Where patients wait and data strains,A whisper comes through static breath—"There's an error,"riding close to death. A screen, a blink, a frozen field,A clerk…

Martin Mwanawima November 28, 2025

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🧩 Puzzles, Fringes, and Solar Eclipses: How I Learn on the Job

Before the day ends, users almost always surprise me with a new puzzle —one I haven’t seen before.Uncertain. Half-explained. Slightly chaotic.Just enough to keep my mind sharp. And once I…

Martin Mwanawima August 2, 2025