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Programming Jun 24, 2026 • 4 min read

When Your Dev Tools Become the Project: Why Constraints Actually Ship Things

Last week, I spent 45 minutes setting up a Python development environment for a quick prototype. Not writing code—setting up. Virtual environment, dependencies, environment variables, choosing between Poetry and pip. By the time I actually opened my editor, I'd already lost momen...

Programming Jun 23, 2026 • 5 min read

The Day I Learned Hashing Isn't Always Security

I was six months into building a fintech product when I made a decision that should have broken everything. I was storing user bank account numbers, and my instinct—the same instinct I'd relied on for years—told me to hash them. Hash everything sensitive. It's secure. It's irreve...

Programming Jun 9, 2026 • 4 min read

The Compiler as Your Pair Programmer: Why I'm Taking Rust Seriously This Year

Last month, I spent three hours debugging a TypeScript memory leak in production that wouldn't show up in development. A user reported that our backend process was consuming 4GB of RAM after running for a few hours. I traced it through heap snapshots, added logging everywhere, an...