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6 min read
Your Staging Environment Is Lying to You
Staging is useful, but teams keep treating it like a trustworthy preview of production when it usually lacks the traffic, data, timing, and constraints that cause the real problems.
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Software engineering
Production lessons on architecture, debugging, maintainability, deployment workflows, and the tradeoffs that separate toy systems from durable ones.
This is the broadest bucket on the site, but it all comes back to one question: what still makes sense when the code has users, constraints, and consequences?
Start with these articles:
- Server-Sent Events: When WebSockets Are Overkill (And When They’re Not)
- Git Branching Strategies: Most Teams Pick Wrong (Here’s How to Choose)
- The Custom Framework You’re Building Will Break Your Team
- Stop Explaining JOINs with Venn Diagrams—Here’s What Actually Breaks
- Your Global Scope Is a Disaster (And It’s Breaking Production)
If your problems are mostly about systems getting harder to reason about, this is the lane to stay in.
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11 min read
IFrames, CORS, and postMessage: Why This Still Feels Broken
Most developers think CORS is the reason iframe communication fails. Usually it isn't. The real problem is that cross-origin embedding and cross-origin scripting are different things.
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10 min read
You're Paying for UI When You Need UX (And It's Costing You Customers)
Why businesses spend $50k on pixel-perfect interfaces that nobody uses—and how confusing design with problem-solving destroys products
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10 min read
The 2026 Web Development Roadmap Nobody's Saying Out Loud
Why learning frameworks matters less than learning to work with AI—and the skills that still separate juniors from seniors
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9 min read
I Built a Production iOS App With Rails and No Swift Developer
Why Hotwire Native ships mobile apps faster than React Native—and when you actually need a native framework
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12 min read
Server-Sent Events: When WebSockets Are Overkill (And When They're Not)
Most teams reach for WebSockets when all they need is a long-lived GET request. Here's what I learned after choosing wrong multiple times.
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