Ideas, Experiments, and Lessons Learned
I’ll be honest — I used to think context switching wasn’t a big deal. “Just switch tasks,” I’d tell myself. How hard can it be? Then I looked at my calendar and realized I’d jumped between 7 different projects in a single day. And accomplished basically nothing. What Context Switching Actually Costs Here’s the thing…
Six months ago, I decided to go all-in on AI coding assistants. Not just for fun — I used them on real production projects, real deadlines, and real bugs. No benchmarks, no marketing fluff. Just my honest experience as a backend developer. What I Used I tested three main tools across different scenarios: GitHub Copilot…
Tuesday afternoon. I’m feeling good. Deploy went smooth, tests passed, coffee in hand. Then the alerts start rolling in. The Problem Users can’t login. Not all users, but enough to trigger panic. Error logs show something about JWT tokens. Fine. I’ve seen this before. I open my terminal. Check the logs. Nothing obvious. I dig…
Rethinking What ‘MVP’ Even Means For years, I bought into the traditional interpretation of an MVP — a quick, stripped-down version of the product meant to validate the idea. Build it fast, ship it, collect data, iterate. It sounds great in theory, but in practice, I found myself building things that looked like half-baked products…