Nov 4, 20269 min read
Why Claude Opus 5.5 Is Overkill (And When You Actually Need It)
Opus is the most capable Claude model. But most teams using it are throwing away money. Here's the c...
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💻 codeNov 2, 20269 min read
I Investigated Why Every Codebase Has a 'DO NOT TOUCH' File (Here's What I Found)
Every codebase has them. Files with warnings. Comments saying 'DO NOT MODIFY.' Code that makes devel...
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I Tested All Claude 5.5 Models to Find the Perfect One (Here's What Happened)
Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5. Which one should you use? I tested all three on real projects to fi...
💻 codeOct 12, 20269 min read
Canary Releases: The Deployment Strategy That Catches Your Mistakes Before Users Do
A canary release routes a small percentage of traffic to a new version while keeping most traffic on...
💻 codeSep 17, 20268 min read
Unit Tests vs. Integration Tests vs. E2E: What Actually Matters (And What's Cargo Cult)
You write unit tests. They pass. You write integration tests. They pass. You ship to production. It ...
💻 codeSep 12, 20269 min read
Why Your Microservices Are Just a Distributed Monolith (And That's the Problem)
You broke your monolith into microservices to decouple. But you just moved the coupling to the netwo...
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How Frameworks Hide Timing Bugs Until Production: Why React, Angular, and Vue Make You Blind to Performance
Frameworks abstract away the rendering pipeline. You write code. It works locally. In production, wi...
💻 codeApr 27, 20267 min read
Why Design Patterns Fail in Production: The Textbook Lies
Design patterns solve abstract problems in abstract ways. But production code is not abstract. It is...
💻 codeApr 27, 20268 min read
The Singleton Trap: Why Global State Destroys Everything (And Why You Keep Using It)
The Singleton pattern seems simple. One instance. Globally accessible. No coupling between component...
💻 codeApr 4, 202613 min read
Seven Design Patterns That Will Make Your Code Make Sense to Other People
Not every problem needs a pattern. But some problems keep showing up dressed in different clothes. T...
💻 codeMar 16, 20269 min read
AI Agents Are Writing Your Code Now. The Real Skill Is Reviewing It.
42% of committed code is AI-assisted. 96% of developers don't fully trust it. And less than half che...