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Opinions, workflow write-ups, and the occasional post-mortem from building real projects — not listicles.

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Why I switched from REST to tRPC on my side projects

End-to-end type safety sounded like a gimmick until I tried it on a real project.

Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
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Aug 12, 2026
TypeScript

I turned on TypeScript's strict mode in a two-year-old project. Here's what broke.

47 errors, most of them real bugs that had been silently waiting — and a handful of genuinely annoying false positives.

3 min read
Aug 12, 2026
AI

The three ways AI code suggestions fail — and how to catch them before they ship

Confidently wrong code is the actual risk, not code that obviously doesn't compile. Here's what to watch for in review.

3 min read
Aug 2, 2026
Tooling

5 VS Code extensions that actually save time

No fluff list — these are the ones still installed after a year of trying dozens.

2 min read