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Essays, TILs, notes and releases in one stream.

October 2025

  1. AWS Is Overrated

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

  4. The Kubernetes Controller That Auto-Reloads Your ConfigMaps

    Essay,

  5. What LLMs Reveal About Human Cognition

    Essay,

  6. Did We Overthink Frontend?

    Essay,

  7. AI Can Build Anything—Except Product Taste

    Essay,

  8. 5 Ways to Survive an Inherited Codebase

    Essay,

  9. The Real Skill AI Won’t Replace

    Essay,

  10. Don’t Build the Login Box

    Essay,

September 2025

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

    Essay,

  2. AI Made Me Faster at Procrastinating

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

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

    Essay,

  6. When DIY Beats Managed Kubernetes

    Essay,