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The real unfair advantage is focus

"unfair" advantages are often associated with things that are external. Better network, funding, timing. But in practice, the biggest one I've seen is focus. I recently changed my working hours from 9

Feb 20, 20262 min read

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 read

You aren't qualified until you've lived the role

We overestimate preparation. There are parts of a role which you simply cannot simulate. Intelligence and effort alone will never make a fresher "qualified" for a job on day one. You can learn syntax,

Jan 15, 20262 min read

Race conditions in async code

What do you think is wrong with this particular block of code? async function createEntity(name: string) { const existing = await this.userRepo.findOne({ where: { name } }); if (existing) throw new ConflictException('Name already exists'); awai...

Jul 16, 20253 min read