As you move past the basics of programming, the computer you use matters more than you might expect. Whether you’re building APIs, running apps in containers, compiling code, or testing on emulators, your machine can affect how fast you work and how smooth everything feels. So, what kind of setup should a programmer use? There’s …
How many times have you seen someone build a beautiful MVP with all the cloud bells and whistles… only for it to flop? The product had everything. Lambda functions are buzzing. API Gateway routes are neatly mapped out. Cognito user pools are locked down. Files in S3, served globally via CloudFront. Data in DynamoDB. Logs …
It started with a screen. You typed your first lines of code. It broke. You fixed it. It broke again, and somehow, you kept coming back, hoping to figure out how things work. No roadmap. No clear reason. That’s how it begins. Quietly. Obsessively, for so many of us here. Until one day, you wake up …
Imagine losing everything, like you went back to square one, everything lost and down the drain because of one small, avoidable mistake. Not a catastrophic accident, not a once-in-a-lifetime tragedy, but a series of tiny, seemingly harmless decisions that snowballed into something irreversible. This is my story. If you can’t read it here, read the …
