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Insights from "Everything I Know About Good System Design"

Sun 17 August 2025

My thoughts and practical experiences applying Sean Goedecke's system design principles - from state management to database schemas, with real-world lessons learned over 10+ years.

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The Monolith That Made AI Actually Useful

Thu 07 August 2025

How we solved context switching across multiple repositories by building a monolith using git submodules, making both humans and AI 10x more effective with our codebase.

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Postman to Bruno: A Weekend Migration That Transformed Our API Workflow

Sun 13 July 2025

We migrated our entire Postman collection to Bruno over a weekend and leveraged Claude Code to automate API documentation, reducing documentation time by 90% and catching breaking changes at review time.

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Managing Context Metadata in Django-PGHistory: Solving the Persistence Problem

Wed 02 April 2025

Learn how to prevent metadata leakage between contexts in django-pghistory for cleaner, more accurate audit trails in your Django applications.

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Designing a Life: Lessons from Benjamin Franklin

Wed 26 March 2025

How Benjamin Franklin designed his life, built habits, and used humor, curiosity, and community to continuously reinvent himself.

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