Side Projects
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Answer the Same Question Once
I spent three years at a logistics startup thinking that “scaling” meant throwing more engineers at the pile of manual tickets. We had all the…
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Three in the Morning and You Are the Whole Team
There is a specific kind of silence that only exists at 3:00 AM, right after your phone has finished screaming at you and you realize…
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Tell People It Is Down Before They Ask
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:14 AM, staring at a Slack notification from a frantic customer support lead while my monitoring dashboard insisted…
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Back It Up and Then Restore It Once
I don’t care how many fancy, enterprise-grade cloud storage solutions or “automated sync” marketing pages you read; most of them are just expensive ways to…
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Data Rules When You Have Forty Users
I spent most of my time at a logistics startup trying to explain to management that we didn’t need a $50,000 enterprise compliance suite just…
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A Privacy Policy in Sentences You Understand
I spent three weeks at a logistics startup once trying to parse a privacy policy that was essentially a legal fortress designed to hide more…
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The Safest Data Is the Data You Never Kept
I remember sitting in a dim home office at 3:14 AM, staring at a dashboard while a database migration choked on a table that shouldn’t…
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Do Not Write Your Own Password Reset
I once spent an entire weekend at a logistics startup trying to integrate a “state-of-the-art” identity provider that promised seamless scaling but delivered nothing but…
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Someone Found a Hole: Respond Well
I once spent three hours in a meeting with a security consultant who insisted we needed a specialized, enterprise-grade ticketing workflow just to manage a…
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Security on a Project With No Security Budget
I’ve lost count of how many “security checklists” I’ve seen online that suggest you need a dedicated SOC2 auditor and a multi-layered enterprise firewall just…