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Design & UX Jun 21, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Building Personalization Features Without a Map

I was three weeks into building a recommendation engine for a fintech client when the product manager asked me to add "something like Spotify's Discover Weekly." I nodded, made a mental note, and went back to my tickets. Two months later, we shipped something that technically wor...

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AI & Machine Learning Jun 21, 2026 • 4 min read

When AI Actually Solves Something: My Thoughts on Rare Disease Diagnosis

I've spent the last five years building web applications that mostly help people manage their schedules, track expenses, or share photos. Useful? Sure. But lately, I've been thinking about what "useful" actually means. Last week, I read about researchers using an AI model to diag...

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Web Development Jun 21, 2026 • 5 min read

I Let My AI Agent Read My AWS Credentials. Here's What I Learned

I shipped an HTML injection vulnerability in an AI chatbot three years ago. The model spit out some HTML, I rendered it straight to the page, and a user discovered they could inject arbitrary content. It was humbling, and I thought I'd learned the lesson: never trust what an LLM...

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DevOps & Cloud Jun 20, 2026 • 5 min read

The Cache Consistency Problem I Didn't Know I Had (Until It Cost Us)

Three months into production, our ReplicaSet controller started behaving like a ghost—taking actions based on information that didn't actually exist anymore. A pod would be deleted, our controller would see the old state in its cache, and we'd recreate it seconds later. Users rep...

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Design & UX Jun 20, 2026 • 4 min read

Claude Design Systems Are Finally Becoming Practical—But There's Still Work Ahead

I spent three hours last week debugging why a design component wasn't syncing properly between Figma and my React codebase. Three hours. By the end, I was staring at mismatched tokens, hand-coded fallbacks, and a mental note that the design-to-dev handoff is still one of the most...

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AI & Machine Learning Jun 20, 2026 • 4 min read

When AI Stops Guessing About Your Health: Why I'm Cautiously Optimistic About ChatGPT's New Medical Capabilities

I got a Slack message last week from a non-technical friend asking if she could use ChatGPT to figure out what was wrong with her knee. I immediately felt that familiar tension—the same one I experience every time AI capabilities cross into domains where getting things wrong genu...

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Web Development Jun 20, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Finally Taking Feature Flags Seriously (And You Should Too)

Last month, I deployed a feature to production without being able to see if it was actually working. My client's infrastructure team deployed it, stakeholders tested it somewhere I couldn't access, and when something broke, I had to wait days for someone to send me screenshots. T...

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DevOps & Cloud Jun 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Letting Your Kubernetes Nodes Blow Up: Why Memory QoS Finally Makes Sense

I spent three hours debugging an OOM killer rampage on a production node last month. The system had plenty of RAM available—or so I thought—but every Burstable pod was hoarding memory like it was going out of style, and when the kernel finally had enough, it started executing pro...

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Design & UX Jun 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Design Awards Are Great, But They're Not Why I Ship Better Code

I've been doing this for seven years now—building products, shipping features, sitting in design review meetings where someone inevitably brings up "we should enter this for a Dribbble award." And every single time, I have to bite my tongue a little. Not because design recognitio...

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Tech News Jun 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Why India's AI Sovereignty Play Actually Matters to Developers Like Me

I was debugging an API integration last month when a colleague mentioned they couldn't use Anthropic's latest models for a client project in Pakistan. The reason? A U.S. government order. That conversation stuck with me—not because I'm surprised by geopolitical restrictions, but...

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Stop Building Personalization Features Without a Map

When AI Actually Solves Something: My Thoughts on Rare Disease Diagnosis

I Let My AI Agent Read My AWS Credentials. Here's What I Learned

The Cache Consistency Problem I Didn't Know I Had (Until It Cost Us)

Claude Design Systems Are Finally Becoming Practical—But There's Still Work Ahead

When AI Stops Guessing About Your Health: Why I'm Cautiously Optimistic About ChatGPT's New Medical Capabilities

Why I'm Finally Taking Feature Flags Seriously (And You Should Too)

Stop Letting Your Kubernetes Nodes Blow Up: Why Memory QoS Finally Makes Sense

Design Awards Are Great, But They're Not Why I Ship Better Code

Why India's AI Sovereignty Play Actually Matters to Developers Like Me

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