Articles

What I've written about building software, and a few things outside it.

3 articles · 3 topics

Sep 17, 20266 minute read

Somewhere out there, someone has your face

There is a person alive right now who carries your face, and most likely neither of you will ever know it. That is the reason I am building Twynsa, and why it works differently from every other social app.

Somewhere out there, someone has your face

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Engineering

Sep 17, 2026

Why I am building migrail, a linter for database migrations

Most migrations that take a site down pass code review first. Here is the failure I kept seeing, why I decided to build a tool for it, and a running log of how it is going.

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Personal

Sep 16, 2026

Who I am and what I build

I am Chiatiah Rayan, a full stack engineer in Buea, Cameroon. What I build, who I build it for, and how I work with the people who hire me.

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