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  1. 37Product SystemsHow I Debug Production Issues (A Real Framework, Not Guessing)Most developers debug by changing things until the error goes away. I debug by narrowing the blast radius systematically. Here's my actual framework.Jan 5, 2026
  2. 38Cloud & InfrastructureAuthentication Is Harder Than You ThinkI've implemented auth 4 times across different projects. Every time I thought it would take 2 days. Every time it took 2 weeks. Here's why, and what I'd do differently.Dec 28, 2025
  3. 39Product SystemsThe Architecture Decision Nobody Writes DownWe spend weeks choosing between Kafka and RabbitMQ but never document why. ADRs take 15 minutes and save months of 'why did we do this?' conversations.Dec 20, 2025
  4. 40Cloud & InfrastructureRate Limiting: The Feature Nobody Thinks About Until It's Too LateYour API works perfectly at 10 requests per second. At 10,000, it falls over. Here's how I implement rate limiting that protects without annoying legitimate users.Dec 15, 2025
  5. 41Solo Studio Operating SystemHow to Review Your Own Code (When There's Nobody Else)Solo engineering means no code reviews. I've developed a self-review process that catches 80% of what a second pair of eyes would find. It starts with stepping away.Dec 8, 2025
  6. 42Product SystemsThe Case Against Over-Engineering (From Someone Who's Done It)I once built a plugin architecture for a system that never needed plugins. 3 weeks of abstraction layers for a feature nobody asked for. Here's how I learned to stop.Dec 1, 2025
  7. 43Cloud & InfrastructureSupabase in Production: What I Wish I Knew Before 185 TablesAfter a year of running Supabase in production with 185 tables, here's the honest review — what's incredible, what's frustrating, and what almost made me switch.Nov 22, 2025
  8. 44Cloud & InfrastructureEnvironment Variables: The Security Hole in Every StartupYour .env file has your database password, Stripe secret key, and AWS credentials. It's in a Slack message, a developer's laptop, and probably a Docker image somewhere. Let's fix that.Nov 15, 2025
  9. 45Product SystemsHow I Structure a Next.js Project (After 6 Production Apps)Folder conventions, data fetching patterns, component organization, and the file structure that scales from MVP to 185 database tables without becoming unmanageable.Nov 8, 2025
  10. 46Cloud & InfrastructureMonitoring That Actually Tells You SomethingDashboards with 47 panels where everything is green aren't monitoring. They're decoration. Here's what I actually monitor and why most alerting is useless noise.Nov 1, 2025
  11. 47Product SystemsGit Workflows That Don't Make You Want to QuitTrunk-based vs GitFlow vs GitHub Flow — I've used all three. Here's what actually works for solo developers and small teams, and why most Git workflows are over-complicated.Oct 25, 2025
  12. 48Product SystemsWhy Most API Documentation Is Useless (And How to Fix Yours)If your API docs list every endpoint but don't show me how to complete a task, they're a reference manual disguised as documentation. Here's what developers actually need.Oct 18, 2025
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