Tag: UX Design

Design & UX Jul 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Rethinking How We Handle Approvals in AI-Assisted Systems

I had a bug in production last month that kept me awake. A financial reconciliation screen showed an AI-suggested refund batch for 12 orders totaling $430. Our team lead approved it. By the time the system executed the action 90 seconds later, new orders had rolled in. The approv...

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Design & UX Jul 23, 2026 • 4 min read

Figma's Identity Crisis: When a Platform Forgets Why Designers Actually Need It

I had this moment last week while sitting in a standup meeting. Our designer mentioned she was considering moving away from Figma for certain workflows, and a developer on the team asked, genuinely puzzled-"But where would you go?" Nobody had a good answer, which honestly made me...

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Design & UX Jul 20, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Pretending Your Phone Needs a Desktop: Why GnokeStation's Pivot Changed How I Think About Platform Design

I spent three months last year trying to build a note-taking app that worked exactly the same on desktop and mobile. Same layout, same keyboard shortcuts, same window management logic. By month two, I was shipping a product nobody wanted to use on their phone. By month three, I r...

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Design & UX Jul 19, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Waiting for Perfect: Why Offline Whisper Made Me Rethink AI on Mobile

I spent six months convinced that on-device speech recognition was a gimmick. Every time someone pitched me on building an app with local AI models, I had the same reflex: "But the models are huge, the latency is terrible, and the accuracy is... optimistic." Then I actually teste...

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Programming Jul 19, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Assuming Your AI Agent Is Done: Lessons From Building Tools That Actually Finish Tasks

I was debugging a Claude agent integration at 2 AM last month when I realized something deeply embarrassing: I had no idea if the thing was actually finished working or just... silent. The agent's last output was innocuous, a file saved, a command run, but was it complete? Was it w...

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AI & Machine Learning Jul 19, 2026 • 5 min read

The Bug That Ships as a Feature: What I Learned About Spend Caps the Hard Way

I shipped a broken spend cap last month. Not catastrophically broken, nothing caught fire, but broken in a way that made me realize I didn't actually understand what my own rate-limiting code was doing when the database went down.

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DevOps & Cloud Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Switching Tools: Why Kubernetes Operators Need to See ML Workloads Clearly

Last month, I spent three hours debugging why a Kubeflow training job was hanging. Three hours. I bounced between the Kubeflow dashboard (which told me the run was "pending"), kubectl logs (which showed nothing useful), and the actual Pod details (which revealed the real problem:...

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Design & UX Jul 14, 2026 • 4 min read

The Unsexy Truth About Product Updates: Why Refinement Beats Feature Creep

Last month, I shipped a "major" feature for a client's dashboard that took three weeks to build. It was complex, it was polished, and exactly two people used it. Meanwhile, I spent an afternoon fixing a confusing button placement that was causing support tickets, and suddenly eve...

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Web Development Jul 14, 2026 • 4 min read

Building Trust Into Software: What Pollux Taught Me About Real-Time Data Systems

Last month, I was debugging a live dashboard for a client that tracks adoption metrics across different regions. The numbers were updating beautifully, real-time, fast, gorgeous UI. Then someone asked me: "How do we know these numbers aren't being gamed?" I didn't have a good answ...

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Design & UX Jul 12, 2026 • 3 min read

The Moment I Realized UX Details Are Actually Engineering Decisions

I was debugging a mobile app last week when my colleague pointed out that users were downloading files instead of seeing previews. "Just add image previews," he said casually, as if it were a checkbox feature. I stared at the Android implementation and realized we'd shipped half...

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