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Lessons From Bun's AI-Driven Zig-to-Rust Port: Verification Is the Real Work
What Bun's agent-assisted move from Zig to Rust teaches about test suites as contracts, porting guides, unsafe code, and why verification now limits AI coding.
12 min readSeven Questions to Settle Before Writing the First Line of a Feature
A pre-implementation checklist covering the real user problem, completion guarantees, rule ownership, legacy data, retries and concurrency, observability and rollout safety.
12 min readRust or Go for Backend Services: Paying Only for the Guarantees You Need
Why Rust's safety and speed rarely address the real bottlenecks of API teams, how Go optimizes for maintainability, and when Rust is the right backend default.
11 min readSeven Common JavaScript Idioms That Quietly Introduce Future Bugs
Explains how everyday JavaScript patterns like truthy checks, optional chaining, and spread syntax hide assumptions that break silently as code evolves.
14 min readSoftware Archaeology: A Practical Method for Reading Legacy Code
Learn a step-by-step approach for safely investigating undocumented legacy codebases, from mining commit history to refactoring without breaking production.
8 min readNine Code-Level Habits That Make Senior Engineers' Work Easier to Trust
Explores nine concrete coding practices—from guard clauses to strict data modeling—that make code more resilient, readable, and easier to debug under pressure.
7 min readMaster TypeScript's Built-In Utility Types for Cleaner Code
Learn how TypeScript's utility types like Partial, Pick, Omit, and Record eliminate duplicate interfaces and keep type definitions in sync automatically.
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