The invisible CDN
A 2012 system. A 2025 retrospective. The engineering behind a simple picture.
INDEPENDENT CREATOR · SINGAPORE
Different forms.
One curious
mind.
I’m Jason. I build systems, write to make sense of things, and make music to give them feeling.
Explore my creations ↓FIG. 01 — A PRACTICE IN COMPOSITION
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{ idea → structure }a little more human.♮ ♩ ♬01 BUILD
02 EXPLAIN
03 EXPRESSALWAYS
EXPLORING ↗
02 EXPLAIN
03 EXPRESSALWAYS
EXPLORING ↗
01 / SELECTED CREATIONSMade of many things.
Made of many things.
Never disconnected.
Sometimes an idea becomes a system. Sometimes a story, a poem, or a piece of music. Follow a thread and see where it leads.
01 / CASE STUDY
Languages remember. Do we?
Latin, Sanskrit, accents and the lives that institutions preserve—or flatten.
Another kind of composition
Music as Jango. Personal pieces, many inspired by my children.
Words with room to wander
Poetry, literary prose, rhythm and experiments in form.
Structure, without ceremony
A declarative scaffolding tool that also captures what you’ve already built.
A fable, freshly brewed.
Coffee, domestic comedy and a Singaporean coconut-shop memory.
Small pieces. Useful systems.
Composable processing and LLM tooling. An evolving exploration of runtime boundaries.
Finding a voice, not a niche.
Why Geekist makes room for a technologist’s many interests.
What’s today called?
A poem of faith, doubt, internal rhyme and the returning question.
The Hidden Machine
An architecture essay about pipelines, dependencies and what makes modern tools work.
From configuration to clarity
A technical book with a companion repository of examples and tests.
The Eye of the Storm
A poem about two people transformed, and love in the middle of turmoil.
A whole product, end to end.
The historical realTasia archive: identity, listings, conversations, queues and delivery.
A sentence. A stanza. A bar.
A daughter’s question opens a conversation about musical structure and expectation.
Keep exploring: 39 articles on Geekist +
These pieces are a starting point. On Geekist, the same curiosity moves between technology, language and everyday life. Explore a little further below; older tutorials belong to their time.
Systems · 24
The Hidden Machine Inside Modern Tooling ↗Part-time Agile Will Work Against You ↗The 5 Best Downloaders for Videos, Music & Images (No Browser Needed) ↗Yes, you can Blog from your Localhost WordPress on iPhone. ↗The Invisible CDN We Built for Display Pics ↗Why Your Tech Stack is Overrated (And What Actually Matters) ↗Modern WordPress MVC Plugin (2024) ↗The Tool that made CSS Magical… ↗The Art of Proxying: Mastering Traffic Like a Pro ↗Can’t we just reset AWS!? ↗Nginx Wildcard SSL and Beyond ↗Why Your Web Server Structure is Holding You Back (And How to Fix It) ↗Smarter Defaults for Subdomains and SSL ↗In the Beginning… We Shared (whether we liked it or not!) ↗It’s a Security Thing. ↗Dynamic Capabilities for Adaptable Systems ↗Hybrid vs. Native ↗Cheaper (free?) Web Hosting in Singapore ↗Many claim Remote Work, but few mean what we really think. ↗How to SSR with `apollostack` and `meteor-react-router-ssr` ↗This is a WordPress Blog. What? Well.., kinda ↗5 Steps to your tech startup MVP ↗Building a Zoomable UI with Meteor.js & Greensock ↗WordPress MVC Plugin Development ↗Words & Ideas · 9
The Editorial Engine: A Technologist’s Pilgrimage ↗Neo Should’ve Picked the Blue Pill ↗The Architects Who Built Our Digital Foundation ↗Grospel of Croffee: The Parable of the Maiden’s Plea ↗Croffee anyone? Or Kroffee if you’re so inclined. ↗We Broke the Web. Now Comes the Rollback-olution™ ↗Sync Music & Visuals Together to Captivate your Audience ↗How to Stay on Beat and Out of Bars (Musically Speaking) ↗How to Geek Out Over Latin Without Sounding Like a Priest ↗Music & Art · 6
What’s today called? ↗As If. ↗Of Writing, Or Something Like It ↗Cadence ↗Chaos Cohere ↗The Eye of the Storm ↗Behind the stories, years of building.Explore realTasia’s historical product archive ↗
02 / THE PERSON
JASON
JOSEPH
NATHAN.
JOSEPH
NATHAN.
BASED IN SINGAPORE
WORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES
WORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES
THE THROUGH LINEI like knowing
The professional story on LinkedIn ↗
I like knowing
how things fit.
A system. A sentence. A team. A score.
I’m a principal engineer, technical writer and independent creator. Building software gives me things to write about; writing helps me understand what I build. On Geekist, that curiosity follows a wider path—into language, everyday stories and poetry.
Music brings another way of listening. Across a system, a sentence or a score, I’m drawn to how the parts come together—and what they make us feel.
Across companies and disciplines +
My path runs from products and platforms at realTasia, Sourceguru and Heardable to regional engineering at Prudential, technical leadership with PALO IT on DBS Marketplace, and enterprise architecture at Thoughtworks.
Along the way, I’ve contributed to projects for Speedoc and Ahrefs, and led engineering at MyGooroo. Those experiences shape how I approach a system—and how I explain it.
03 / A SHARED PRACTICEBring the difficult idea.
Bring the difficult idea.
Let’s give it form.
That same care goes into the work we make together: something worth explaining, building, or thinking through.
DISCRETION IS PART OF THE CRAFT.
Commissioned ghostwriting stays private. The work shown here is public, independent work.
Good things start
with a little curiosity.
No perfect brief required. We can find the shape together.