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Jan 20, 20259 min read

A More Comfortable Desk for Coding, One Change at a Time

Before buying a new chair, mouse, or keyboard, work out what's uncomfortable about the setup you already have. A few adjustments may help more than replacing everything on the desk.

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Nov 7, 20268 min read

How AI Could Change Jobs—and What Sam Altman Is Proposing

If AI helps you finish a day's work sooner, who gets the saved time? A look at changing jobs, the risk to entry-level work, and Altman's ideas for sharing the wealth—from an equity fund to universal basic compute.

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Dec 10, 20254 min read

Zero Trust in a Web App: What to Check on Every Request

A request coming from your own network still needs permission to read a customer's records. Here's how that simple rule changes authentication, service access, and the checks around your API.

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Dec 5, 20253 min read

What Sci-Fi Interfaces Get Right—and What I'd Leave on Screen

A floating dashboard can look wonderful in a film and be miserable to use at a desk. Sci-fi is worth borrowing from, as long as we separate the visual ideas from the everyday interaction.

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Dec 5, 20255 min read

Five Kinds of Websites We Keep Coming Back To

A search engine wants to get you to an answer. A video platform wants you to stay. Looking at why we return to different sites is more useful than treating all traffic as the same thing.

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Nov 28, 20255 min read

Next.js Security Checks I'd Make Before Shipping

Which values can a browser change? Where does the server check permissions? A practical pass through input validation, sessions, API routes, and security headers in a Next.js app.

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Nov 20, 20254 min read

Post-Quantum Security: What a Web Developer Can Do Now

You don't need to write a new encryption algorithm. Start by finding where your app depends on public-key cryptography, how long its data needs to stay private, and who maintains the tools involved.

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Nov 15, 20254 min read

Why This Next.js Blog Keeps Its Posts in TypeScript Files

No CMS for the articles, just typed content blocks and a page that renders them. Here's what that keeps simple, where it gets awkward, and why it doesn't remove the need for security checks elsewhere.

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