A pile of essays, opinions, and the occasional debugging saga.
Regex obfuscators break real code. I built Kitsune on the Babel AST instead — here's why, how the transforms work, and the gotchas around Google Apps Script that shaped its design.
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What it actually takes to build an image converter that runs entirely in the browser and behaves the same everywhere. Six things that bit me.
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I spent a weekend hunting a crash that left nothing in logcat or tombstone. Here's the trick behind it, and how I finally reproduced it on my laptop.
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Throwaway code is a feature, not a failure. A short essay on why your side project doesn't have to last forever to be worth building.
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A controversial take that's less controversial than it sounds. Most ORM magic isn't worth what it costs you when things break.
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What I learned from publishing something every week for twelve months. The good, the bad, and the times I almost quit.
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