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Unlearn faster
When I started engineering seriously, I carried a lot of "correct" patterns in my head. Microservices were the gold standard, so the real-world project I led the development on had to be microservices
Mar 3, 20262 min read44
Vibe-engineering an OpenAPI compatible API authoring tool
As an engineering lead, I spent most of my time architecting systems, writing issues, and translating business requirements into clean technical requirements which involve some form of API documentation and authoring DTOs. Defining the API as a contr...
Feb 8, 20266 min read127
Your website has a carbon footprint too.
Every page load burns electricity — servers, networks, your user's device. That electricity usually comes from fossil fuels. An average webpage generates ~0.5g of CO2 per visit. Multiply by trillions
Jun 1, 20253 min read98
Your users aren't IP addresses.
Let’s get this out of the way first: I’m not saying IP-based rate limiting is bad. Sometimes it’s the only thing you can. But if you’re still defaulting to IPs every time without thinking twice, you’re doing your users and yourself a disservice. Ther...
Mar 11, 20253 min read80
Don't be a ticket engineer.
Imagine one day, you’re scrolling through your Jira tickets, and the latest ones are marked as resolved by AI. Why wouldn’t it be? If it had access to the code, understands the requirements, and has been trained on previous human input, it’s perfectl...
Jan 19, 20255 min read370