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Programming Aug 19, 2026 • 4 min read

I Learned the Hard Way: Data Migration Isn't What I Thought It Was

Three years ago, I was asked to help move customer data from an old CRM into a shiny new system. I thought I had this, extract some SQL, transform it, load it, done. I was confidently wrong. Six weeks later, staring at a production issue where 47 customer records had split into du...

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Compliance

Programming Aug 19, 2026 • 4 min read

The One Email That Actually Matters: Why I Finally Stopped Failing at Migrations

I spent three days last month arguing with a client about whether we should migrate their documents. Three days. We were already two weeks behind, the stakeholders were frustrated, and I was pulling apart spreadsheets trying to figure out the impact. By day three, I realized nobo...

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Web Development Aug 19, 2026 • 4 min read

I Spent 3 Years Avoiding Go. Here's What I Finally Understand About It.

Two years ago, a client asked me to maintain a microservice written in Go. I remember thinking: "Great, another language to learn." I'd been comfortable in Node.js and Python for years. Go felt like stepping backward, no elegant decorators, no flexible typing, no magical framework...

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AI & Machine Learning Aug 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Passkeys Aren't Broken, But I'm Finally Understanding Why I Need a Hardware Key

I spent the last week watching security researchers, tech journalists, and my entire Twitter feed panic about passkeys. "They're not as safe as we thought," the headlines screamed. "Use hardware keys instead." By Thursday, I was genuinely unsure whether I should migrate away from...

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Claude

Programming Aug 19, 2026 • 5 min read

Everyone's Building Shopping Bots. Nobody's Building Shopping Systems.

Last month, I spent three days debugging why a payment confirmation email went to the wrong customer. Not the wrong inbox, the completely wrong person. The order was placed correctly. The payment went through correctly. But somewhere in the state transitions between "payment appro...

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LLM UX Design

Web Development Aug 18, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Treating Your LLM Provider Like It's Forever

I spent three weeks last month ripping out Anthropic-specific code from a review automation system we built for a logistics company. Three weeks. The work itself took maybe two days, the rest was tracking down subtle differences in how we'd structured prompts, handled errors, and...

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Claude AWS

Programming Aug 18, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Paying for a Mac You Don't Need: The iOS Build Economics Nobody Talks About

I got into a heated argument with a friend last year about iOS development. He wanted to ship his first app but thought he needed to drop $1,200 on a MacBook Pro. I told him he was wrong, but honestly? I wasn't entirely confident in that answer. The internet is noisy about this s...

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CI/CD

Programming Aug 18, 2026 • 4 min read

The NULL Bug That Haunted My First Production Query

I still remember the moment I discovered this one. It was 3 AM, the night before a client demo, and I was staring at a query that was supposed to pull all customers missing phone numbers. The table had 500 customers. My query returned zero. I could *see* the NULLs sitting right t...

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Python JavaScript

Programming Aug 18, 2026 • 4 min read

When AI Becomes Your Debugging Partner (And Why It's Still Not Ready for Production)

I've been there. You're dropped into a codebase written in tools you don't recognize, authentication is broken, and someone hands you an AI tool promising to solve everything. Last month, I inherited a Node.js backend that was a complete mess, database migrations were never run, e...

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Claude Startups

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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I Learned the Hard Way: Data Migration Isn't What I Thought It Was

The One Email That Actually Matters: Why I Finally Stopped Failing at Migrations

I Spent 3 Years Avoiding Go. Here's What I Finally Understand About It.

Passkeys Aren't Broken, But I'm Finally Understanding Why I Need a Hardware Key

Everyone's Building Shopping Bots. Nobody's Building Shopping Systems.

Stop Treating Your LLM Provider Like It's Forever

Stop Paying for a Mac You Don't Need: The iOS Build Economics Nobody Talks About

The NULL Bug That Haunted My First Production Query

When AI Becomes Your Debugging Partner (And Why It's Still Not Ready for Production)

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

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