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Adam - The Developer

hey i'm adam. i'm a software engineer who's way too into backend, distributed systems, and hunting down edge cases for fun. also i play piano by ear and math's kinda fun

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University Of Cambodia

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origin/main

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Piper

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Conduit: The Gateway I Built to Forget About

Sandboxed Deno plugins for Go gateways

Conduit: The Gateway I Built to Forget About

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When Software Started Writing Software: A Developer’s History of AI

Blending strict logic with pattern matching

When Software Started Writing Software: A Developer’s History of AI

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There Is No Perfect Solution in Software Development: Every Decision is a Tradeoff

There Is No Perfect Solution in Software Development: Every Decision is a Tradeoff

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The Hidden Machinery Behind Background Jobs

The Hidden Machinery Behind Background Jobs

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When Duplicate Code Is the Better Design

Reframing DRY as knowledge rather than code

When Duplicate Code Is the Better Design

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Minimal Code Doesn’t Mean Stable Code

Failure modes in distributed systems

Minimal Code Doesn’t Mean Stable Code

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The Mid-Dev Paradox: Why Juniors Are Chill and Mid-Levels Will Reorganize Your Code at 3 AM

Juniors spotting normalized dysfunction

The Mid-Dev Paradox: Why Juniors Are Chill and Mid-Levels Will Reorganize Your Code at 3 AM

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⚔️ Go vs Java: The Minimalist vs The Enterprise Veteran

Learning curves and memory usage trade-offs

⚔️ Go vs Java: The Minimalist vs The Enterprise Veteran

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Why High-Performing Teams Look Like They Do Nothing

Distinguishing challenge from chronic stress

Why High-Performing Teams Look Like They Do Nothing

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The Developer Who Reviews Everything and Ships Nothing

The Developer Who Reviews Everything and Ships Nothing

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Your Caching Strategy Is Not a Strategy

Your Caching Strategy Is Not a Strategy

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Episode 2: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

Humorous takes on relatable coding mistakes

Episode 2: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

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Episode 1: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

Relatable stories of chaotic legacy code

Episode 1: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

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Resume-Driven Development Is Quietly Killing Your Product

Resume-Driven Development Is Quietly Killing Your Product

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No Redis. No Kafka. Just Postgres. I Built Chat.

No Redis. No Kafka. Just Postgres. I Built Chat.

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Premature Optimization Is Bad, But Your App Is Just Slow Because You're Lazy

Premature Optimization Is Bad, But Your App Is Just Slow Because You're Lazy

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The Unwritten Laws Running Your Code

The Unwritten Laws Running Your Code

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Why Most Teams Shouldn't Build a Chat System

Why Most Teams Shouldn't Build a Chat System

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Only The Strong Survive: Breaking Into Software Engineering in 2026

Only The Strong Survive: Breaking Into Software Engineering in 2026

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Sharding Databases with Spring Boot: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Failure Modes

Sharding Databases with Spring Boot: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Failure Modes

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The Cult of Clean Code

The Cult of Clean Code

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We Ship 5MB of JavaScript Then Gaslight Users About Their WiFi

We Ship 5MB of JavaScript Then Gaslight Users About Their WiFi

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The Invisible Hand That Fed Us

The Invisible Hand That Fed Us

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Concurrency Without the Pain: A Guide for Beginner & Mid-Level Developers

Concurrency Without the Pain: A Guide for Beginner & Mid-Level Developers

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Code Reviews: Quality Control or Ego Olympics?

Code Reviews: Quality Control or Ego Olympics?

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Technical Debt vs Structural Debt: A Complete Guide for Engineering Teams

Technical Debt vs Structural Debt: A Complete Guide for Engineering Teams

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NestJS Dependency Injection: Why Your Services Won't Inject (And How to Fix It Properly)

NestJS Dependency Injection: Why Your Services Won't Inject (And How to Fix It Properly)

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Why Developers Fear Simple Requirements More Than Legacy Code

Why Developers Fear Simple Requirements More Than Legacy Code

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Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in Spring Boot

Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in Spring Boot

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Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in NestJS

Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in NestJS

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A Full-Stack Developer Is A Myth

A Full-Stack Developer Is A Myth

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Your "Microservices" Are Just a Distributed Monolith (And Everyone Knows It)

Your "Microservices" Are Just a Distributed Monolith (And Everyone Knows It)

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I Spent 2 Days Migrating to TypeScript So I Could Write JavaScript Anyway

I Spent 2 Days Migrating to TypeScript So I Could Write JavaScript Anyway

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Deep Dive: What Actually Runs When You Write 'await' in JavaScript?

Deep Dive: What Actually Runs When You Write 'await' in JavaScript?

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A Tribute to the Java Pioneers: You Built the Foundation We Stand On

A Tribute to the Java Pioneers: You Built the Foundation We Stand On

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Spring WebFlux: When to Use It and How to Build With It

Spring WebFlux: When to Use It and How to Build With It

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Repository Pattern in NestJS: Do It Right or Go Home

Repository Pattern in NestJS: Do It Right or Go Home

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Stop Massacring the Repository Pattern: A Love Letter to Separation of Concerns

Stop Massacring the Repository Pattern: A Love Letter to Separation of Concerns

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Java Isn't Verbose – You Are

Java Isn't Verbose – You Are

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Modern Code, Ancient Habits: Why Your One-Liners and Cryptic Names Aren't Clever

Modern Code, Ancient Habits: Why Your One-Liners and Cryptic Names Aren't Clever

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