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Design & UX Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Treating User Research Like an Afterthought—It's the Plot Device Your Product Needs

I used to think user research was something designers did while I wrote code. I'd ship features, watch them fail in production, and then wonder why nobody told me users hated the flow. Turns out, they had. I just wasn't listening. Last year, I finally sat through a usability test...

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AI & Machine Learning Jun 12, 2026 • 4 min read

When Your Bank's Code Runs on ChatGPT: What BBVA's Move Actually Means

Last month, I was debugging a legacy banking integration at 2 AM—you know, the kind where a single API timeout cascades into 15 different downstream failures. I remember thinking: what would it look like if we could actually automate the problem-solving part itself? This thought...

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Web Development Jun 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Shipping Features You Don't Know How to Build Yet (And Why That's Actually Okay)

Two years ago, a client asked me to add real-time notifications to a Laravel dashboard. I immediately said yes, then spent three days researching WebSockets, Redis, and event broadcasting before writing a single line of code. I was convinced I needed to understand the entire arch...

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DevOps & Cloud Jun 11, 2026 • 4 min read

etcd 3.7 Finally Fixes the Problem I've Been Hacking Around For Years

I remember the exact moment I realized etcd's limitation was killing our query performance. We were building a service that needed to fetch thousands of configuration entries from etcd, and every single request would block until the entire result set was assembled in memory. On a...

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Design & UX Jun 11, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Shipping Everything: Why My Best Products Have Less, Not More

Last year, I shipped a feature that took three weeks to build. It handled some edge case that maybe 2% of users would ever hit. It was technically elegant, well-tested, and completely unnecessary. Two months later, I deleted it. Nobody complained. That's when I realized I'd been...

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AI & Machine Learning Jun 11, 2026 • 5 min read

Why Your Existing Oracle Contract Just Became a Gateway to Production AI

Last month, I was sitting in a budget review meeting—you know, the kind where finance is questioning why we need multiple cloud subscriptions—when it hit me. We're already paying Oracle for infrastructure. We're not really using it to its full potential. And somewhere in that sam...

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Web Development Jun 11, 2026 • 4 min read

The Monorepo Lesson I Needed: Why Your API Should Be Boring

Last month, I inherited a "decentralized" platform that was anything but. The landing page promised peer-to-peer compute. The backend was two Django views, a Redis instance that nobody monitored, and approximately 400 lines of undocumented business logic scattered across three di...

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DevOps & Cloud Jun 10, 2026 • 3 min read

Why Kubernetes Just Made My Vulnerability Scanner Useless (And That's Actually Good)

I was running a security audit on one of our staging clusters last month when something weird happened. My vulnerability scanner—the expensive one we pay good money for—suddenly flagged three CVEs across all our Kubernetes nodes as *fixed*, even though our security team kept insi...

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Design & UX Jun 10, 2026 • 5 min read

I've Been Managing Design Wrong, and Here's Why It Took Me Two Roles to Figure It Out

Last month, I sat in a retrospective where our design manager and lead designer had what looked like two completely different conversations about the same problem. One was worried about team burnout and skill gaps. The other was concerned whether we were actually solving for user...

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Tech News Jun 10, 2026 • 4 min read

The $47 Billion Question: Why AI Companies Are Still Betting on Growth Nobody Can Prove Yet

I was sitting in a client meeting last week when someone asked me the question that keeps me up at night: "So we've spent six figures on AI tooling this year. What exactly did it save us?" The answer I gave was honest and uncomfortable: "I'm not entirely sure."

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Stop Treating User Research Like an Afterthought—It's the Plot Device Your Product Needs

When Your Bank's Code Runs on ChatGPT: What BBVA's Move Actually Means

Shipping Features You Don't Know How to Build Yet (And Why That's Actually Okay)

etcd 3.7 Finally Fixes the Problem I've Been Hacking Around For Years

Stop Shipping Everything: Why My Best Products Have Less, Not More

Why Your Existing Oracle Contract Just Became a Gateway to Production AI

The Monorepo Lesson I Needed: Why Your API Should Be Boring

Why Kubernetes Just Made My Vulnerability Scanner Useless (And That's Actually Good)

I've Been Managing Design Wrong, and Here's Why It Took Me Two Roles to Figure It Out

The $47 Billion Question: Why AI Companies Are Still Betting on Growth Nobody Can Prove Yet

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