Behind the scenes
As a software developer, I once confidently set HttpClient.Timeout, and assumed my API calls would be under control. Instead, the call hung forever. That’s when I realized timeouts can be sneaky—and setting them isn’t enough unless you really understand how they work. The Problem I wrote: But the request never timed out. No exception, just…
As a software developer, I’ve had my fair share of moments when my app works perfectly on my trusty Windows machine… until I deploy it on a Linux server and it crashes spectacularly. That frustrating gap between “It runs fine here” and “Why won’t it run there?” recently hit me hard during a .NET Core…
You ever have one of those days where you fix something… and it still doesn’t work? That was me — a while ago, back when I was still learning the ropes of ASP.NET Core middleware. I enabled CORS in my app, confident and caffeinated — and still got blocked. I triple-checked everything. The headers? Correct.…
It started like any other workday. I was building an endpoint to return a list of users along with their posts and comments. Easy, right? Fire up Entity Framework, write a clean LINQ query, hit F5. Done. Until my API took forever to respond. My local machine’s fan went full blast. And the SQL logs?…
Let me tell you about an MVP launch that humbled me—in the best way. We had clear specs, solid tech, and a motivated client. We moved fast and built exactly what was asked. The product worked beautifully. But something strange happened post-launch: users… just didn’t care. No major bugs. No downtime. Just silence. The Problem:…
And What I Learned About Estimating Software Projects If you’ve ever cheerfully said, “It’ll take a week, tops,” only to find yourself still pushing commits on day 26, I’ve got a story for you. This was meant to be a simple build — and turned into a crash course in why we developers are terrible…
It was just another regular Tuesday — coffee in hand, confidence high, ready to knock out a few Angular components. Nothing fancy. Just your usual ngOnInit, a couple of subscribe() calls to some observables, and voilà! Everything worked like a charm. Until it didn’t. The Problem A few days later, I noticed something odd. My…
Ever had one of those coding days where nothing makes sense — not even your own code? I ran into one of those recently. What started as a simple API tweak spiralled into a weird bug hunt that made me question reality, logic, and possibly the entire HTTP spec. Let me share what happened. If…
If you’ve worked with Angular for a while, you’ve probably seen it: the UI looks fine at first glance, no errors in sight, but something just isn’t updating the way it should. It’s the kind of thing we often catch during testing — or if we’re lucky, during a code review. One of the most…
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…
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