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Tech News Sep 25, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Grinding LeetCode and Start Building: What Actually Gets You Hired in 2026

I failed a system design round last year. Not because I didn't know what load balancing was, I could recite distributed systems concepts all day, but because I couldn't articulate why I'd make certain tradeoffs in a real scenario I'd never actually faced. Sitting across from an int...

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JavaScript

Tech News Aug 18, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Building AI Content Machines Without Feedback Loops (I Did, and It Cost Me)

I spent three months last year building what I thought was a clever AI content system. Feed it keywords, it spits out articles, publish them, done. I was so focused on the generation part that I completely ignored the feedback loop. The system published 200+ pages, and I checked...

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Git

Tech News Aug 18, 2026 • 4 min read

When Infrastructure Becomes the Moat: Why SpaceX's Cursor Acquisition Actually Matters to Developers

Last month, I was debugging a model inference timeout at 2 AM. Our API was slow, the customer was frustrated, and I kept thinking the same thing: if only we had access to better compute. We were sharing cloud resources with hundreds of other companies, fighting for GPU time like...

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Claude Startups

Tech News Aug 9, 2026 • 4 min read

The Senior Engineer Trap: Why Your Best Code Won't Make You An Architect

I spent three years at a fintech startup where I owned the payment processing system. The code was pristine. Test coverage above 90%. I could optimize queries in my sleep. But when the CTO asked me to design our next-gen infrastructure for handling 10x growth, I froze.

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Startups AWS

Tech News Aug 5, 2026 • 5 min read

The DevOps Role Nobody Really Agrees On (And Why That's Actually The Point)

I spent three years thinking I understood what a DevOps engineer was. Then I hired one, and realized I had no idea what to actually ask them to do.

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Startups Kubernetes

Tech News Aug 4, 2026 • 4 min read

Why Germany's Energy Grid Made Me Rethink How We Build Scalable Systems

Last month, I was debugging a load-balancing issue in one of our applications, trying to figure out why traffic spikes weren't being distributed evenly across our infrastructure. My colleague mentioned something offhand: "We need to think of this like a power grid." That comment s...

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Python Algorithms

Tech News Aug 3, 2026 • 4 min read

We're Measuring the Wrong Thing: Why DevEx Conversations Are Broken

I had a moment last month that stuck with me. Our team's build system was taking 8 minutes for a full rebuild, nothing catastrophic, but enough that developers stopped running tests locally and just pushed to CI. We were losing maybe 2-3 hours per developer per week to idle time....

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UX Design Productivity

Tech News Aug 2, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Still See Developers Throwing Money at WordPress Problems That Don't Exist

I was at a local tech meetup in Islamabad last month when someone asked me to review their WordPress setup. They'd just paid $200 for a "premium performance suite" and were still frustrated with load times. Within ten minutes, I found the issue: they were uploading 8MB product ph...

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Tech News Aug 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Why VCs Raising Billions While We're Optimizing Bundle Sizes Feels Like a Different Game

I was debugging a production deployment last week when one of our backend engineers casually mentioned that Index Ventures just raised $2 billion. My first thought wasn't "wow, that's amazing for the VC ecosystem." It was: "They're making more from one exit than our entire compan...

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Startups Claude

Tech News Jul 31, 2026 • 3 min read

About Manab Protim Hazarika

Manab Protim Hazarika didn't take the usual route into software. Growing up in Titabor, a small town in the Jorhat district of Assam, he completed his Higher Secondary in Science before enrolling in...

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