The Day We Trashed Our Design Wiki for ADRs and Reclaimed Our Engineering Velocity
The story of how moving our architectural 'why' into our git history finally ended the cycle of endless Slack re-explanations.
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My Tests are Gaslighting Me: How I Finally Tamed the Flakiness in Our CI Pipeline
Nothing kills a developer's productivity faster than a 'random' CI failure. I spent a week hunting down the ghosts in our test suite so you don't have to.
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The 'Smart' Search Struggle: Implementing Vector Embeddings in Remix Without the Math Degree
Keyword search is so 2010. I explored how to leverage vector embeddings and pgvector to give my Remix app a brain that actually understands what users are looking for.
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Zero-Downtime Database Migrations: The 'Expand and Contract' Pattern I Use for Every Release
A guide to evolving your database schema safely using the parallel-change pattern to avoid application outages during deployments.
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Your Webhooks Will Fail: Building a Resilient Integration That Doesn't Lose Data
A deep dive into implementing idempotency, manual retries, and dead-letter queues to ensure your third-party integrations stay bulletproof when things go wrong.
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The 'Just-In-Case' Feature Graveyard: Why I'm Finally Learning to Say No to Over-Engineering
An honest look at the seductive trap of building for hypothetical future requirements and how I started prioritizing 'Now' over 'Maybe.'
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The Postgres Performance Cliff: Why Your Queries Are Slowing Down (And How Indexing Actually Works)
A deep dive into why simply 'indexing everything' fails and how to use execution plans to fix real-world database bottlenecks.
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My Code is a Haunted House: A Guide to Refactoring Without Waking the Ghosts
We all have that one file we're afraid to touch. Here's how I finally tackled my most terrifying legacy code without burning the whole repository down.
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The 'Loading...' Spinner is Dead: Streaming AI Responses in Remix Without Losing Your Mind
Stop making users stare at a blank screen; learn how to combine Remix’s defer utility with OpenAI’s streaming API to build a snappy AI interface that feels faster than a junior dev on their third espresso.
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My Remix App is Talking Back: Building a Local AI Assistant That Actually Understands My Codebase
A deep dive into using Ollama and the Vercel AI SDK within Remix to create a self-documenting, context-aware developer tool that stays strictly on your machine.
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