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Git Bisect: Finding the Commit That Broke EverythingA regression was three weeks old. Manual inspection would take hours. Git bisect found the culprit in 5 minutes and 7 binary searches.
gittil
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The Art of Saying No to Features (Without Burning Bridges)Every 'yes' is a 'no' to something else. Learning to decline feature requests constructively was the most valuable skill I developed this year.
careerreflection
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Adding View Transitions to a Static Astro SiteView Transitions turned our multi-page site into a single-page-app feel without any framework. Here's the minimal setup.
astrojavascript
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Writing Error Messages That Actually Help DebuggingA good error message tells you what failed, why it failed, and what to do about it. Most error messages I see only do the first.
metago
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Calling Rust from Python: A Practical FFI WalkthroughWe replaced a 200-line Python hot loop with 50 lines of Rust and got a 40x speedup. Here's the exact FFI setup.
pythonrust
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Hello WorldMy first blog post. Excited to start sharing my thoughts!
personalgetting-started
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Retrospective: The Rewrite That Didn't ShipWe spent four months rewriting a working system. It never shipped. Here's what we should have done instead.
retrospectivecareer
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Rate Limiting at the Reverse Proxy: Our Nginx ConfigApplication-level rate limiting burned CPU cycles. Moving it to Nginx cut response times and simplified our code.
nginxperformance
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A Practical Testing Pyramid for REST APIsUnit tests caught logic bugs. Integration tests caught wiring bugs. E2E tests caught nothing but added 20 minutes to CI. Here's what we changed.
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