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What building my first real project taught me

The code was the easy half. Scoping it so it could actually be finished, writing a README somebody else could follow, and continuing after the intere…

Nobody uses your app twice by accident

My mess feedback app had 900 students rate a meal on day one. By day four it was forty. What brought it back was not a feature. It was the weekly dig…

The query that taught me about indexes

A page in my project took four seconds to load with 12,000 rows. I assumed the framework was slow. It was a sequential scan on a column I filtered by…