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The Moral Work of Friction
The high cost of getting exactly what you want
What happens when the distance between wanting something and getting it disappears - and what that does to the way you treat other people.
How I Actually Vibe Code (and Why Prompting Is the Smallest Part of It)
Why judgment and specs matter more than prompts when building with AI—and where the real work happens.
From the Series
Specs Are the Real Skill Behind AI Coding
Why 45,000 lines of specifications matter more than prompts when building with AI.
Why I Turned Off PostgreSQL Row-Level Security in Production
How connection pooling broke the RLS policies and what I built instead.
Retrofitting Multi-Tenancy Into a Live App
Adding tenant_id to 33 tables and 70+ API routes without breaking production.
Why I Made the Database Crash Loudly
How fail-fast patterns prevent silent cross-tenant data leaks.
Race Conditions in Booking Systems (and How I Fixed Them)
What happens when five players click Book for the last spot at the same time.
I Replaced 11 Serverless Functions With One Worker
From 45-second blocking requests to instant responses with background processing.
How Small Performance Fixes Add Up to 85% Faster
Why 300+ duplicate requests became 30, and what that did to load times.
How I Used a Genetic Algorithm to Balance Teams
The hardest feature to build with AI, and the 15 iterations it took to get right.
How I Built a SaaS Demo Without Touching the Database
Why static JSON exports beat live tenant switching for demo modes.