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You already know you should write tests. The skill nobody teaches is writing ones that earn their keep, instead of a wall of green that protects nothing. On testing behaviour not implementation, why brittle tests are worse than none, and why "hard to test" is the design talking.
Read moreYou paid someone to build it. That doesn't always mean you have it. Here's what "having the code" really means, and how to check that you do.
Read moreYou're three weeks into a two-week task, nothing has closed, and you've started to suspect the problem is you. It probably isn't. It's that you were handed something with no edges, and you can't finish what has no edges. Here's how to give it some.
Read morePeople use the words like they mean the same thing. They don't, and the difference is most of what a quote is made of. Here's how to tell which one you're actually asking for.
Read moreYou've shipped for years. You can set up a domain, mostly. And every time a record change doesn't take, you fall back on the same word you don't really believe: "propagation." Here's the mental model that makes DNS stop feeling like weather.
Read moreWebsite performance impacts business. Slow load times drive away visitors and damage revenue.
Read moreSearch results are full of pages selling a scanner or a PDF tool, all skipping the step that decides success. Here's the process that actually works for turning a shoebox of cards into searchable, structured recipes.
Read moreEveryone asks the price per card. It's the wrong question. The OCR runs about thirty cents a box; the real bill is ten hours of human review. Here's the honest math and three ways to handle it.
Read moreOCR demos always use a clean printed card. Real recipe boxes are faded and handwritten, where OCR fails in ways that quietly ruin the dish. Here's what breaks, and what actually fixes it.
Read moreThe commit history tells a story. Not the one I planned. The one where every assumption I made about backups got corrected by production.
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