Web Development Articles

Web Development Jun 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Why AI Coding Agents Failed at My Unity Project, Until I Realized the Real Problem

Last month, I watched Claude systematically break a Unity prefab system I'd spent days designing. It wasn't that Claude is bad at C#-it's actually quite good. The issue was that Claude was editing files in a vacuum. It could change the code, but it couldn't see what the Editor wa...

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Claude UI Design

Web Development Jun 22, 2026 • 4 min read

I Got Blindsided By My AI Gateway Bill, Here's What I Should Have Known

Three months into production, I got a Slack message from our finance team that made my stomach drop. Our OpenAI bill had multiplied by 4x with no corresponding increase in user traffic. I spent two hours digging through logs, convinced we had a runaway process or a customer abusi...

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Claude ChatGPT

Web Development Jun 21, 2026 • 5 min read

I Let My AI Agent Read My AWS Credentials. Here's What I Learned

I shipped an HTML injection vulnerability in an AI chatbot three years ago. The model spit out some HTML, I rendered it straight to the page, and a user discovered they could inject arbitrary content. It was humbling, and I thought I'd learned the lesson: never trust what an LLM...

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Claude AWS

Web Development Jun 20, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Finally Taking Feature Flags Seriously (And You Should Too)

Last month, I deployed a feature to production without being able to see if it was actually working. My client's infrastructure team deployed it, stakeholders tested it somewhere I couldn't access, and when something broke, I had to wait days for someone to send me screenshots. T...

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UI Design CI/CD

Web Development Jun 19, 2026 • 4 min read

The Library Selection Problem I've Been Solving Wrong for Years

I spent a solid hour last week trying to pick a job queue library for a side project. One tab with GitHub stars, another with benchmark results from 2022, a Reddit thread someone linked in Slack, and eventually I just picked the one that seemed "least likely to die." Sound famili...

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Python Productivity

Web Development Jun 18, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Obsessed With USB Hotplug Detection (And Why You Should Be Too)

Last month, I spent three hours debugging a file sync application because my refresh button wasn't working. Not because the button had a bug, but because I'd built the entire feature around *expecting* users to click it. When a USB device connected, nothing happened until someone...

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UI Design React

Web Development Jun 17, 2026 • 4 min read

I Picked the Wrong Database Twice, Here's What I Actually Learned

Three years ago, I spent two weeks optimizing a MySQL database that fundamentally wasn't built for what we were doing. We were running analytical queries on user behavior, aggregating data across millions of records, and MySQL was gasping like it was running uphill. The real kick...

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Web Development Jun 16, 2026 • 4 min read

I Finally Stopped Bleeding Money on Datadog, And Why Grafana Cloud Might Be Your Exit

I was sitting in a budget review meeting six months ago when our finance person casually mentioned we were spending $18,000 per year on Datadog for a team of five engineers. My stomach dropped. We were getting good observability out of it, sure, but $18,000 annually for the scale...

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Startups UI Design

Web Development Jun 15, 2026 • 4 min read

When Your Task Management System Accidentally Reveals How Products Actually Grow

I was three weeks into building a client's project tracking system when everything fell apart in the best possible way. We'd designed it around a simple idea: one task, one owner, one completion state. It worked fine until the client tried to archive their first major feature, onl...

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Web Development Jun 14, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Finally Understand What Makes Geospatial Search Actually Hard

Last year, I was debugging a delivery tracking feature for a client in Karachi. Users were complaining that the app would occasionally skip nearby riders, sometimes missing someone literally 50 meters away. I was doing what every junior developer does when facing performance issue...

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