When you’re a solo developer, your infrastructure isn’t just your business—it is your business. There’s no ops team to call at 3 AM, no heroic incident response meeting where someone else takes charge. It’s just you, your cold coffee, and the sinking realization that your production database just became nothing more than a digital ghost story. I’ve been there. And I’m guessing you have too, or you’re smart enough to know it’s coming....
Look, I’m going to say something that might get me banned from the DevOps dinner parties: not every automation task deserves a fancy CI/CD pipeline. I know, I know—it sounds like heresy in 2026. We’ve been conditioned to believe that bigger, more complex, more enterprisey is always better. But what if I told you that sometimes a well-crafted Bash script, sitting quietly in your repository, might be exactly what your team needs?...
If your library’s website feels like navigating a labyrinth designed by someone who’s never actually tried to find a book, or your physical space makes patrons look like they’re searching for buried treasure without a map, you’re not alone. The good news? Designing libraries that people genuinely enjoy using isn’t some mystical art reserved for tech giants with bottomless budgets. It’s about understanding that libraries aren’t just repositories of books—they’re experiences....
If you’ve spent more than five minutes in a software engineering team, you’ve likely witnessed it: two developers, locked in passionate debate, arguing about the width of their indentation. One reaches for the Tab key with the righteousness of a crusader, while the other frantically taps the spacebar, refusing to yield. Their pull request sits in limbo, and the team watches, exhausted. Welcome to one of programming’s most gloriously pointless wars....
I’ve been in too many meetings where someone says, “Wait, why did we build it that way?” only to discover the answer was buried in a 47-page RFC from 2019 that nobody ever opened. Sound familiar? The irony is that Request for Comments documents are supposed to prevent this chaos. Instead, many teams produce RFCs that get skimmed, misunderstood, or worse—completely ignored. But here’s the thing: a well-crafted RFC is like a good movie....