42+ min ago   (429+ words) Good code isn't just code that works. It's code that can be changed, tested, and extended without breaking everything around it. That's where SOLID comes in. SOLID is a set of five object-oriented design principles that help you write software…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago   (323+ words) "Software Engineering is programming integrated over time." AI is insane at churning out code... Tagged with ai, programming, softwareengineering, productivity....

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (702+ words) In case you're new to this column, let me warn you: I don't do polite. I nitpick, I rant, and I gnash my teeth about the absurdities of corporate governance, farming in Laikipia, and now, drumroll please, the circus that…...

2+ hour, 7+ min ago   (249+ words) Brokerages are vibe coding now. Not all of them — but enough that it's a real pattern. We built Streams around a pretty exciting idea: What if brokerages could have all of that creative control, with infrastructure underneath it that was…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (1367+ words) Choosing a stack is a product decision before it is a technical one. This article documents why this portfolio runs on Bun, Astro, and MDX — and, more importantly, the reasoning that led me to turn down more sophisticated alternatives. Nothing…...

2+ hour, 57+ min ago   (238+ words) Most language debates online are framed as a competition — Go vs. Python, pick a side. In practice, the more interesting question for a working developer isn't "which one," it's "where does each one actually win, and how do I connect…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (420+ words) This is the condensed walkthrough; the full guide (estimates, API, data model, and the full production.NET 9 code) is on my site 👇 The two sides scale very differently: Storage and transcode compute dominate the write side; the CDN is not…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1027+ words) Embeddings are dense numerical vectors learned so that items with useful semantic or behavioral relationships occupy nearby regions of a representation space. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice. Embeddings deserves a precise explanation…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago   (515+ words) Over the past few years, an annoying trend has taken over the Android ecosystem. Remember when media player apps were just lightweight tools you opened to watch a downloaded movie or an anime episode offline? Fast forward to today, and…...

3+ hour, 43+ min ago   (483+ words) How I built a zero-cost, zero-server monitoring alert with Lambda, EventBridge, and SES, and the two production bugs I hit along the way. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) have a feature that's incredibly useful during incidents and quietly dangerous afterward:…...