Code Habits
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A Lying Readme Is Worse Than None
I once spent three hours debugging a service deployment only to realize the “Quick Start” guide in the repository was actually describing a version of…
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If You Must Explain It, Rename It
I was staring at a screen of nested ternary operators at 2:14 AM during a deployment failure at my old logistics firm, and I realized…
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One Function, One Reason to Change
I remember sitting in a dark apartment during my time at that logistics startup, staring at a single 400-line function that was supposed to “just…
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A Boundary Only Exists if You Enforce It
I spent three years at a logistics startup where we had “architectural diagrams” that looked like beautiful, clean works of art, but the actual codebase…
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Every Flag Is a Branch You Will Not Test
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:15 AM, staring at a terminal screen while my coffee went cold, trying to figure out why a…
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Validate at the Edge, Trust the Inside
I once spent three days debugging a race condition in a logistics system that only triggered when a specific combination of malformed JSON hit our…
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The Empty Catch Block Is a Time Bomb
I still remember the feeling of my stomach dropping at 2:14 AM during my time at that logistics startup. I was staring at a dashboard…
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Tell Them What to Do, Not What Broke
I once spent three hours on a Tuesday morning debugging a failed payment integration, only to realize the system was throwing a generic “Internal Server…
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A Slow Suite Is a Suite Nobody Runs
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:15 AM, staring at a spinning progress bar in Jenkins while my coffee went cold. I had pushed…
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Not Everything Deserves a Test
I remember sitting in a cold server room during a deployment at my old insurance firm, watching a CI pipeline crawl through three thousand green…