Technical lead in Phnom Penh, writing about TypeScript, offline-first apps, and shipping software in Cambodia.https://chanlito.dev/enhttps://chanlito.dev/articles/the-scripts-i-should-have-written-first/https://chanlito.dev/articles/the-scripts-i-should-have-written-first/I built this site in a day with a crowd of agent sessions. They kept rebuilding the same checks by hand, so I turned the three most common ones into bun scripts.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAITestinghttps://chanlito.dev/articles/what-broke-when-i-put-my-website-in-khmer/https://chanlito.dev/articles/what-broke-when-i-put-my-website-in-khmer/This site is in English, Khmer and Spanish. English and Spanish worked with every tool I tried. Khmer broke something at almost every step.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCambodiaWebhttps://chanlito.dev/articles/how-id-do-pull-request-review-today/https://chanlito.dev/articles/how-id-do-pull-request-review-today/I don't read every line of code before it merges anymore. For most of my career, that's what code review meant.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCode reviewAIhttps://chanlito.dev/articles/green-tests-broken-app-why-our-agents-have-to-show-their-work/https://chanlito.dev/articles/green-tests-broken-app-why-our-agents-have-to-show-their-work/Done is a claim. A coding agent's green tests, clean typecheck and confident summary all describe the code; only the running app shows whether the feature worksSat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAITestinghttps://chanlito.dev/articles/why-good-software-ideas-in-cambodia-stay-ideas/https://chanlito.dev/articles/why-good-software-ideas-in-cambodia-stay-ideas/My uncle works in healthcare, and he has an idea for a health app that comes from a problem he sees at work every day. I think it's a very good idea.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTCambodiaStartups