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Jul 27, 2025

This Tiny Golang App Pays My Rent

I never expected a 300-line Go program to become my side-income engine. But here we are: this tiny backend app, originally hacked together…

This Tiny Golang App Pays My Rent

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Oct 20

Every Great Engineer Has a List of Things They Don’t Understand Yet

There is a moment in every engineer’s career when someone asks a question in a meeting, and everyone seems to know the answer except them.

Every Great Engineer Has a List of Things They Don’t Understand Yet

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Oct 19

Being a Senior Engineer Is Less About Knowing More and More About Panicking Less

There is a moment in every engineer’s career when something breaks, the logs look terrible, the dashboard turns red, and nobody knows…

Being a Senior Engineer Is Less About Knowing More and More About Panicking Less

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Oct 18

Your Career Is Not Falling Behind Just Because Someone Else Is Moving Faster

There is a particular kind of anxiety that comes with being a software engineer. You could be doing reasonably well at your job, learning…

Your Career Is Not Falling Behind Just Because Someone Else Is Moving Faster

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Oct 17

That Bug You Spent Six Hours Fixing Wasn’t a Waste of Time

There is a particular kind of frustration every software engineer knows. You have been staring at the same bug for hours. You have read the…

That Bug You Spent Six Hours Fixing Wasn’t a Waste of Time

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Oct 16

You Don’t Have to Be the Smartest Developer in the Room to Be a Great Engineer

There is a particular feeling that comes from sitting in a meeting where everyone seems smarter than you. Someone explains a complicated…

You Don’t Have to Be the Smartest Developer in the Room to Be a Great Engineer

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Oct 15

If You Spend Half Your Day Debugging, You’re Probably Doing Real Engineering

There is a particular kind of frustration every software engineer knows. You write what looks like a perfectly reasonable piece of code…

If You Spend Half Your Day Debugging, You’re Probably Doing Real Engineering

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Oct 14

Nobody Tells You That Being a Software Engineer Is Mostly Figuring Things Out

When I first imagined being a software engineer, I thought the job was about knowing how to code. You learn programming languages…

Nobody Tells You That Being a Software Engineer Is Mostly Figuring Things Out

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Aug 18

12 API Development Tools Every Backend Engineer Should Know

The tools that make building, testing, documenting, and debugging APIs dramatically easier.

12 API Development Tools Every Backend Engineer Should Know

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Aug 16

15 Tools That Make Cloud Infrastructure Management Easier

Managing cloud infrastructure has never been more powerful — or more complicated.

15 Tools That Make Cloud Infrastructure Management Easier

The Cache Cowgirl

The Cache Cowgirl

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Engineering Manager at Adobe Inc., mother of two. Optimizing the wild frontier of code, one millisecond at a time. 🤠 Email: mediumcomms@gmail.com

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