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The scariest security holes aren't clever, they're doors with no lock. On why authorization is where you'll actually bleed, why you can never trust the client, and the boring hygiene that stops most breaches before they start.
Read moreA client got locked out of the account they needed to log into, in order to fix the thing that locked them out. The email they signed in with lived inside the very thing they were trying to reach. Here's how the loop forms, and how to stay out of it.
Read moreYou 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.
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