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How to Use PostgreSQL as a Cache, Queue, and Search Engine
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PostgreSQL
Performance
FreeCodeCamp
Real benchmark data showing how PostgreSQL handles caching, queues, full-text search, and pub/sub — and where the line is.
Why Postman Works But Your Browser Doesn't
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Web Development
Security
CORS isn’t your server blocking requests — it’s your browser protecting users. Here’s what’s actually happening.
The Server Always Wins
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Web Development
Architecture
How meta-frameworks like Next.js and TanStack Start achieve their SEO and performance benefits — it’s not magic, it’s architecture.
The Full Test Suite
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
System specs with Capybara, Shoulda Matchers one-liners, SimpleCov enforcement, and why the testing pyramid isn’t just a diagram
The Switching Cost
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
What was harder than expected, what was easier, and what I’d tell myself before learning Rails
Testing in a New Language
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
RSpec vs Jest, FactoryBot vs fixtures, and Rails security that comes free
The Rails Way
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Service objects, Hotwire, ERB, and where Rails and Node.js disagree about how web apps should work
Convention Over Configuration
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Rails MVC, ActiveRecord, and why the framework makes decisions so you don’t have to
Everything Is an Object
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Ruby syntax through TypeScript eyes — implicit returns, truthiness gotchas, and why 0 is truthy
The Data Structure That's Okay With Being Wrong
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Software Engineering
Data Structures
Bloom filters — probabilistic, memory-efficient, and surprisingly useful
The Toolbox Nobody Opens
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Software Engineering
Computer Science
Data structures you use every day without thinking about them, and the ones you should
Sharing Is Caring
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JavaScript
Web Development
Internal packages in monorepos — shared types, UI components, and the end of copy-paste engineering
One Repo to Rule Them All
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JavaScript
Web Development
Turborepo, monorepo architecture, and why rebuilding everything on every change is a waste of everyone’s time
Buntime Funtime
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JavaScript
Web Development
Bun as a runtime, package manager, and the all-in-one promise — from benchmarks to a real project
You Drive, AI Assists
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Software Engineering
AI
How I use Cursor and Claude Code in my day-to-day work, and why the split matters
Top 10 Greatest Hits of 2025
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Software Engineering
Security
The OWASP Top 10 for 2025, explained with code examples and practical fixes
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
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Software Engineering
System Design
The eight fallacies of distributed computing, and why everything you built in this series violates at least one
From SSH to GitOps
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DevOps
CI/CD
How our deployment pipeline evolved from rsync to Docker Compose to ArgoCD
The Middleman
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Software Engineering
Infrastructure
Reverse proxies, API gateways, and the layers between your users and your code
Who Goes There
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Software Engineering
Security
Sessions, JWTs, OAuth, and SSO — what they are and when to use each
The One-Line Fix
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Software Engineering
PostgreSQL
Database indexing, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and why one CREATE INDEX beat five new pods
The Contract
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Software Engineering
Web Development
REST API design patterns that save your future self from debugging nightmares
Traffic Cops
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Software Engineering
System Design
Load balancing algorithms, L4 vs L7, and why your requests end up where they do
The Bouncer at the Door
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Software Engineering
System Design
Rate limiting algorithms, layered protection, and why your API needs a velvet rope
The Fastest Code Never Runs
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Software Engineering
System Design
Caching, Redis, and the art of not hitting your database
You Probably Don't Need Kafka
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Software Engineering
System Design
A practical guide to message queues for developers who nod along when someone says ’let’s use Kafka'
Scaling the Right Thing
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Kubernetes
Infrastructure
We scaled the wrong layer first and learned that scaling is a diagnostic skill, not a shopping spree
Making Sense of Metrics
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Grafana
Monitoring
Grafana dashboards, the RED method, and why provisioning matters
Watching the Watchers
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Prometheus
Monitoring
Kubernetes
Prometheus, AlertManager, and the art of knowing what’s broken before your users do
GitOps with ArgoCD
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ArgoCD
Kubernetes
DevOps
How Git became our deployment tool and kubectl became obsolete
Running on Google's Cloud
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Google Cloud
Kubernetes
GKE, load balancers, and the Cloud SQL Proxy sidecar pattern
Enter the Cluster
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Kubernetes
Infrastructure
From Docker Compose to Kubernetes — what changes and why
Building and Shipping with Docker
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Docker
CI/CD
Docker multi-stage builds and CI/CD with GitHub Actions
Containerizing Everything
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Docker
Infrastructure
Why I containerized my entire homelab on a 7-year-old laptop
Building With Hugo
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Hugo
Web Development
How I built this website with Hugo and the Blowfish theme
Things I Changed My Mind On
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Software Engineering
Opinions that didn’t survive contact with production
Living in the Terminal
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Terminal
Productivity
How TUIs replaced my GUI tools and accidentally made my workflow more accessible
Load testing with Grafana K6
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Testing
Node.js
Our first foray into load testing our backend APIs
Logging Google App Engine Applications
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Google Cloud
App Engine
Node.js
How to add logging to your Google App Engine application
Deploying a website with Cloudflare & Hugo
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Hugo
Deployment
Static website deployment with Cloudflare and Hugo
Taking Notes
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Obsidian
How I use Obsidian to organize technical knowledge — vault structure, plugins, and a system that actually scales
Meeting the Penguin
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Linux
From Windows to Ubuntu to Arch — how working as a systems engineer turned me into a Linux convert
A Fresh Start
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Starting a personal blog and development journey from scratch — why I decided to build, write, and document everything