Sandi Metz's 'wrong abstraction' pattern, Kent C. Dodds's AHA alternative to DRY/WET, and the correctly-attributed Rule of Three, with the concrete failure signatures that tell you which side of the DRY tension you're ac...
Cross-engine SQL guidance beyond textbook fundamentals: the GitLab 2017 backup-failure postmortem, why REPEATABLE READ silently permits write skew, sourced connection-pool sizing formulas, and SQL:2023's JSON type and pr...
Production guidance for MongoDB covering embedding vs referencing schema design, compound indexing and index intersection limits, the aggregation pipeline, multi-document transaction costs, and when a document store beat...
Idiomatic Nim: the partial case/underscore-insensitive identifier rule, the module export system, choosing proc/func/template/macro/iterator/method, ARC/ORC value semantics, exception-based error handling with the raises...
The canonical, exhaustive catalogue of Nim semantics that cause confident-but-wrong LLM-generated code: partial case/underscore-insensitive identifiers, the Nim 1.x-to-2.0 ARC/ORC memory-management default change, ref-vs...
Verified reference for Nim's compile-time metaprogramming system: hygienic templates and their call-by-name semantics, AST-level macros with NimNode and quote do:, generic constraints and the current stability status of ...
Production guidance for Redis covering core data structure selection, caching patterns (cache-aside, write-through), eviction policies, RDB vs AOF persistence trade-offs, pub/sub vs streams, and Redis Cluster fundamental...
Named, sourced critiques of SOLID in production - the Ousterhout/Martin method-length debate, the 'interface hell' failure signature for over-applied ISP, canonical real-world over-abstraction cases (Spring's AbstractSin...