I write about what I'm learning, what broke, and what I'd do differently. No polish, just the actual process.
Specific mistakes I made designing backend APIs early on — not abstract principles, but the actual calls that caused problems and what I understand now that I didn't then.
Read post →On hitting React's limits for a content-heavy site and deciding to learn Astro mid-project — what it cost, what it fixed, and what it forced me to unlearn.
Read post →A walkthrough of a specific debugging story — not the fix, but the wrong assumptions that kept me stuck for three days.
Read post →How thinking about global systems changed the way I think about software architecture — cascading failures, hidden dependencies, and why 'the big picture' is a technical skill.
Read post →Running a CS degree and a full-stack development track simultaneously — what's working, what's hard, and what I'd tell myself six months ago.
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