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Essays

October 2025

  1. AWS Is Overrated

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  2. Why Your SaaS Needs a Docker Compose Setup Even If You’re Just One Person

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  3. Stop Forcing Subscriptions on your SaaS. Do this instead.

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  4. The Kubernetes Controller That Auto-Reloads Your ConfigMaps

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  5. What LLMs Reveal About Human Cognition

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  6. Did We Overthink Frontend?

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  7. AI Can Build Anything—Except Product Taste

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  8. 5 Ways to Survive an Inherited Codebase

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  9. The Real Skill AI Won’t Replace

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  10. Don’t Build the Login Box

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September 2025

  1. It Was Just a Primary Key. What Could Go Wrong?

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  2. AI Made Me Faster at Procrastinating

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  3. Your Python Web App is a Memory Hog. Admit It.

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  4. Your AI Pair Programmer Doesn’t Need a Buffet

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  5. The Language That Wasn’t Supposed to Be One

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  6. When DIY Beats Managed Kubernetes

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