Tag: coding

javascript Apr 25, 2026

What Ten Years of Debugging Taught Me: The Mental Models That Actually Help

I've spent the better part of a decade staring at broken code, confused logs, and systems that worked yesterday but don't today. After a while, you stop throwing darts and start developing actual mental models — patterns of thinking that consistently get you closer to the bug.

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javascript Apr 24, 2026

Regular Expressions Demystified: Stop Copy-Pasting and Start Understanding

For years, my relationship with regular expressions went something like this: encounter a regex I needed, Google it, copy it from Stack Overflow, test it once, and move on. If it broke, I'd Google a new one. I treated regex like incantations — mysterious symbols that somehow worked, as

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