I’ve had exactly one catastrophic deployment failure in my career. Just one. But that single Friday afternoon disaster taught me more about deployment processes than a thousand successful pushes ever could. It was a Magento e-commerce site, back in the days when we used SVN for version control (yes, I’m showing my age here). We had a proper setup with separate staging and production...
You know the moment. You’re in a groove writing code, and Slack pings: “The checkout thing glitched out again.” You ask what happened, but the reply is either silence or “I don’t know, it just doesn’t work.” That’s the reality of most bug reports. They often land in one of a few predictable shapes: The Vague Reporter: “The app is being weird.” No specifics, no details. The Screenshot Bomber: A...
There’s still a lot of talk about vibe coding. I’ve written about it before, but after watching the Cursor and Claude drama on Twitter, I realized my approach might not match the noise. Programming languages are like spoken languages. There are infinite ways to say or build something, but only a handful of those ways are worth using long-term. Anyone can hack together a feature, but there’s a big...
When I started building this SaaS in September, I didn’t even want to launch a SaaS. I was working with a local client who had a tight budget and was using a mess of disconnected services that refused to talk to each other. None of them offered a usable API. I realized the only way to get them what they needed was to build something myself. That was the spark. Writing Code Was Less Than 40% of...
“Vibe coding” is becoming the default for a lot of developers — and for good reason. When the right tools are in place, you can hit the ground running and move fast. Frameworks like Laravel and Filament paired with AI tools like GitHub Copilot let you focus on building features instead of boilerplate. Code almost writes itself. Development accelerates. And surprisingly often, maintainability...
I’m not sure if I was just incredibly green or if the process has gotten significantly easier but releasing apps to the App and Play store is not nearly as big an ordeal as it once was. Thankfully, xcode even manages keys for you so iOS is arguably easier to work than Android. However, deploying Android apps is still a straight-forward process. In it’s infinite wisdom, the YouTube...