#Debugging

Career / Developer Experience 18 May 2026 · 4 min read

From Bug Fixes to Feature Development: Working Effectively in Existing Codebases

Most professional software work is changing code somebody else wrote. A practical method for getting productive in an unfamiliar codebase quickly — an...

#Career #Debugging #Code Review

AI for Developers 4 May 2026 · 4 min read

Using AI as a Software Developer Without Losing Engineering Fundamentals

AI tooling is genuinely useful for the mechanical half of development. The engineering judgement it does not replace is the half that decides whether...

#AI-Assisted Development #Code Review #Career

Career / Developer Experience 23 Mar 2026 · 3 min read

Lessons Learned From Supporting Enterprise Applications

Supporting software that is already live teaches things that building greenfield does not — about change, evidence, and what 'done' really means.

#Production #Debugging #Career

SQL 23 Feb 2026 · 4 min read

Common SQL Performance Problems I Have Encountered

The query patterns that turn up again and again when a page that was fast in testing becomes slow in production — and how each one is usually fixed.

#SQL #SQL Server #MySQL

Debugging 12 Jan 2026 · 4 min read

How I Approach Debugging a Production API Issue

A repeatable sequence for production API failures: establish the facts, narrow the blast radius, reproduce, then fix at the right layer.

#Debugging #APIs #Production