Behind the scenes
I was just trying to search through a log file. Innocently, I typed: It worked. I was happy. Then, during a code review (yes, we review bash scripts too), someone yelled — okay, maybe not literally, but they left a fiery comment: “Useless use of cat. Don’t do this!” I blinked. What? What did cat…
Agile is great. I’m a fan. As a developer, I love the fast feedback loops, quick iterations, and how perfectly it fits MVP app development. And honestly, there’s something incredibly satisfying about watching an app grow—sprint by sprint—evolving from a bare-bones prototype into something real and usable. But Agile only works when it’s done right.…
This one’s for every dev who has yelled, “Why isn’t my logger working?!” only to discover that… it was. It just wasn’t working for your part of the app. That was me a few days ago — sprinkling LogInformation calls like seasoning into a new service class, confident I’d see those sweet, sweet logs. But…
You know that feeling when everything compiles, all your unit tests are green, and you’re about to push with confidence… and then suddenly, tests start failing randomly? That was me — confused, frustrated, and convinced I was in a timeline where DateTime.Now had turned into a prank API. This is a story about how a…
We’ve all had those “facepalm” moments in coding — the kind where you stare at a line of SQL for an hour, convinced it should work. This is the story of one such moment involving a MERGE statement in T-SQL, a sneaky nullable column, and a silent refusal to update anything. If you’ve ever screamed…
Why System.Text.Json Is More Strict Than You Expect There I was, staring at my console, wondering why a perfectly good JSON blob was refusing to deserialize. I had recently swapped out Newtonsoft.Json for the leaner, faster System.Text.Json, excited to embrace a modern, built-in library. But then… nothing worked. No errors, no obvious hints. Just silent…
A Lesson in Relative Paths in .NET Apps If you’ve ever had that sinking feeling after realizing your code just wiped out the wrong file, you’re not alone. I recently had this exact nightmare, and it all came down to a sneaky culprit: relative paths. Let me share my story, the lessons I learned, and…
How Angular Handles Subscriptions and Why It Still Caught Me Off Guard I thought I was careful. I’ve preached it in code reviews, mentioned it in talks, and even put it in documentation: don’t use the | async pipe multiple times on the same Observable in a template. And yet, somehow, there I was —…
Today, I want to open up about a little shell scripting headache that caught me off guard but taught me an important lesson. If you’ve ever tried looping over files in Bash and ended up “processing” a file named literally *.txt, you’re not alone. Let me share my story and how I solved this subtle…
Hello and welcome! If you’ve ever spent 3 hours debugging only to fix it with a single missing semicolon—or if “it worked yesterday” is part of your daily vocabulary—you’ve found your people. This blog is my little space on the internet where I get to share what it’s really like being a developer. You’ll find…
I’m a software developer sharing thoughts, tips, and lessons from everyday coding life — the good, the bad, and the buggy.
