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A Stepladder for IT Projects

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a certain type of person who makes me pause, furrow my brow, and nod along, while internally raising my hand and shouting for a stepladder.

I call them high-talkers. Not because their voice is loud. But because the way they speak feels like an invitation to summit Mount Everest… without gear, without a map, and without any physical preparation whatsoever.

And ironically, I run into this type most often in IT projects.

Choosing a Tech Stack: Between Ego and Business

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So anyway, a while back I was sitting in an internal meeting, Zoom or Google Meet, I honestly can’t remember, when a colleague suddenly lit up with enthusiasm:

“What if we migrate to microservices while we’re at it? To be modern, to be scalable, to be-”

To be what, exactly? Our system at the time had two main features, a team of four people, and traffic that barely hit a thousand requests a day on its busiest day. The case for microservices? Zero. The enthusiasm for it? A hundred hahaha.

Why One Bug Can Take Three Days

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“This is just a small bug, right? Should take 5 minutes.”

Ever heard this one? Or maybe its variants: “Just change one line of code, right?”, “How can it take a whole day to fix this?”

If you’re a developer, you almost certainly have. And that line usually comes from a boss, project manager, or client, someone who doesn’t need to know what an N+1 query is, but needs to understand why something that looks simple takes a non-simple amount of time.