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Me vs the Documentation I Wrote Six Months Ago

Me vs the Documentation I Wrote Six Months Ago

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Past me wrote "this is self-explanatory" and left. Present me has questions. A short, painfully familiar look at the docs we write for ourselves, and the habits that make future you grateful instead of confused.

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The Five Stages of Debugging (and the Method That Skips Most of Them)

The Five Stages of Debugging (and the Method That Skips Most of Them)

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Denial, blame, bargaining, despair, and finally the one-character fix. Every developer has lived the stages of debugging. Here's a tour of them, followed by a calm method that gets you to acceptance much faster.

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Me vs the "Quick" Database Migration on a Big Table

Me vs the "Quick" Database Migration on a Big Table

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Five lines. Widen a column, add an index. It runs instantly locally. The five stages of a quick migration on a big production table, why it hangs, and the habits that make migrations boring again.

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Me vs the Legacy Codebase: A Week in Five Acts

Me vs the Legacy Codebase: A Week in Five Acts

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Monday: a function called processData2_new_FINAL. Tuesday: the urge to rewrite everything. Wednesday: the code turns out to know things. A funny, familiar week with legacy code, and what actually works: characterization tests and the strangler pattern.

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Naming Things: A Tour of the Hardest Problem in Computer Science

Naming Things: A Tour of the Hardest Problem in Computer Science

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$data2, $temp, finalFINAL_v3 and a getUser() that secretly creates users. A light tour of the naming hall of fame, why bad names are often a design smell, and seven rules that actually help.

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Me vs CORS: A Love Story in Five Bad Ideas and One Good One

Me vs CORS: A Love Story in Five Bad Ideas and One Good One

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Every developer's relationship with CORS goes through the same stages: denial, wildcards, browser flags and bargaining. Here are the bad ideas we all try, why they fail, and the boring fix that actually works.

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01. About Shiroz

Mohammed Shiroz

Hi, I'm Mohammed Shiroz, a software engineer and AI enthusiast from Sri Lanka who turns ideas into intelligent, real-world solutions. With over 9 years of hands-on experience, I currently lead real estate ERP development at Kate Group, a...

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