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The full archive, newest first. Page 4 of 6 — 62 articles across 6 topic clusters.
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Product Systems
How 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
38
Cloud & Infrastructure
Authentication Is Harder Than You Think
I'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
39
Product Systems
The Architecture Decision Nobody Writes Down
We 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
40
Cloud & Infrastructure
Rate Limiting: The Feature Nobody Thinks About Until It's Too Late
Your 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
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Solo Studio Operating System
How 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
42
Product Systems
The 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
43
Cloud & Infrastructure
Supabase in Production: What I Wish I Knew Before 185 Tables
After 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
44
Cloud & Infrastructure
Environment Variables: The Security Hole in Every Startup
Your .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
45
Product Systems
How 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
46
Cloud & Infrastructure
Monitoring That Actually Tells You Something
Dashboards 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
47
Product Systems
Git Workflows That Don't Make You Want to Quit
Trunk-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
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Product Systems
Why 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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