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The Day CSS Layout Stopped Feeling Like Magic

Flexbox for one axis, Grid for two — and the mental model that unblocked me.

I Let AI Draft My Posts — Here’s What Still Feels ‘Mine’

The model doesn’t have my job stories, my bad deploys, or my taste. I use it anyway — just not the way the Twitter takes suggest.

I Replaced a Bunch of Cron Scripts with n8n (And Sleep Better)

n8n looks like a toy until you’re debugging a 2 a.m. webhook. Here’s how I use it for real work — including this blog’s publish pipeline.

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Vim, VS Code, and the Religion I’m Not Joining

I’ve switched editors three times. The only thing that moved the needle was learning my debugger.

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Three API Mistakes I’ve Shipped (So Maybe You Won’t)

Versioning, pagination, and the boolean that meant three different things.

How I Read a Codebase I Didn’t Write (Without Pretending I’m a Genius)

A repeatable order of operations: entrypoints, data flow, then opinions.

I Removed a Popular Library and Nothing Broke (At First)

How I knew it was dependency bloat, not ‘best practice,’ keeping it around.

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Five Git Habits I Stole From Better Engineers

None of these are flashy. That’s why they survived my laziness.