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

Jul 22

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

#note #caching #frontend #typescript

2 min read

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

Want to connect with Edgar Nahama Alochi?

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

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

The Best Line of Code Is the One You Never Write

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

When Software Decays and AI Accelerates Complexity

Vibe Coding Is Cheap. Engineering Remains Expensive.

The Great Simplification: Why Your Database is Your Best Cache

The Cost of a Promise

Learning to Think in Sets, Not Loops

The Death of Junior CRUD Development

Environments Are Not Features

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

Post Mortems and Other Corporate Rituals

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

The Weight of Unused Knowledge

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

How to Kill a Great Product with 100 Good Ideas

Your AI Agent Made a Decision. Now Prove Why.