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New Year, Same Curiosity Building Better in Tech
A new year is here, and instead of setting vague resolutions, I’m doubling down on systems, skills, and substance. Last year was about learning the fundamentals...
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What a Software Engineer Should Learn Next Year to Become a Powerhouse
Goal A practical, beginner‑friendly roadmap for software engineers early‑ to mid‑career who want to become high‑impact, reliable, and technically versatile eng...
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Best of 2025: The DevOps Bottleneck: Why IaC Orchestration is the Missing Piece
If you work in DevOps, you’ve heard it a thousand times: “Do more with less.” More automation, more security, more reliability—but with the same or fewer people...
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DevSecOps as a Strategic Imperative for Modern DevOps
If you do not take security seriously, you are just begging for trouble. Security should be an integral part of your development process, not something that you...
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When Codegen Suggests Deprecated Pandas APIs — a Cautionary Tale
How the deprecated API slipped into production I was using a code‑generation model to scaffold a small ETL that normalized CSV files into a canonical DataFrame...
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2025: The Year I Built Foundations, Not Perfection
2025 in one line: A year of foundation‑building, first wins, and learning how hard consistency really is. I didn’t finish everything I planned. But I became som...
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When long chats change the code: context drift and hidden errors
How long chats quietly reshape the model I keep a live assistant thread open during tricky debugging sessions. At first I seed the conversation with stack deta...
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Docker, Beyond “It Works on My Machine”
Why Docker Became Popular Docker didn’t become popular because it’s fancy. It became popular because developers were tired of wasting time fixing environment i...
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Consistently deploying Lambda functions and layers using Terraform
The code that accompanies this blog post can be found herehttps://github.com/justtinkering/blogpost-deploy-lambda-with-terraform. Deploying Lambda functions to...
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EP 10: Git Hooks - The 'Pre-Flight' Check for Your Code
The Nightmare: “I forgot to run the linter” We've all been there: you’ve been coding for three hours, you’re in the flow, and you finally hit git push. Five mi...
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Manual version bumps using semantic release with Azure DevOps
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AI Didn’t Make Me Faster. It Made Me Brave Enough to Learn More.
In the past few months Alongside our normal feature work, I’ve: - Cut our CI test times by 70 % - Reduced API requests by 30 % - Shipped features that had been...