AI Can Write the Code. Who Gives It the Context?
When you talk to ChatGPT about a subject you understand well, you quickly notice something. The first answer is rarely the final answer. You add conte…
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The Dependency Injection Quest: How I Turned Spaghetti Code Into a Lightsaber 🚀
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Picture this: I’m knee‑deep in a legacy codebase that feels like the Death Star’s trash compactor—every time I try to add…
Review is the Symptom. Specification is the Fix.
Addy Osmani published Agentic Code Review the most data-rich, most honest assessment of the AI code-review crisis to date. The Faros numbers alone are…
How We Migrated a Client from WordPress to a Custom Next.js Storefront
Last year, a client came to Paradane with a WordPress/WooCommerce store that was buckling under growth. Page loads were hitting 6 seconds, the checkou…
When to Use Microservices (And When to Stick With a Monolith)
Most teams I talk to assume microservices are the endgame. Split everything into tiny services, deploy independently, scale each one separately — it s…
System Design Interview Roadmap (10 Concepts That Matter Most)
Disclosure: This post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in t…
Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)
Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes) After working on software projects of different sizes, I've noticed that…
Perfect Is the Enemy of Done — and I Learned That the Hard Way
I had something that worked. It wasn't pretty. There were rough edges. A few things I wanted to clean up before anyone saw it. So I kept going. Three …
Why I Built Online JSON Tools Instead of Another AI App
Everyone seems to be building AI products right now. Open LinkedIn, Product Hunt, or Twitter, and you'll find hundreds of new AI tools launching every…
The end of the programmer: 26 predictions I dare you to break
Essay · June 2026 · 26 theses · 3 horizons It's not about AI replacing devs. It's about who holds power inside the software production chain — and who…
Django vs. Flask: Choosing the Right Python Framework for Your Business
The real question isn't which framework is better. It's which one you can stop thinking about six months into the project. Key Takeaways Project Suita…
A Practical Intro to Spec-Driven Development (SDD)
When we build something complex—whether it’s a skyscraper, a gourmet meal, or a piece of software—we usually start with a plan. In software developmen…
Few hacks a dev needs
Few things that I adopted, which has helped me to be better developer. To be honest, I forget things quite fast. Journaling becomes more than just a t…
It’s Not the AI. It’s How You Use It
Chapter 5 Deep-Dive: The Comprehension You Trade Away Companion document to “Software Development in the Agentic Era” By Mike, in collaboration with C…
Fallacies of GenAI Development #8: More AI Agents Means More Productivity
This is the eighth and final post in a series on the false assumptions teams make when building with generative AI. The series began with the observat…
The Hidden Contract of Mastery: Why Complexity Is Yours to Absorb
A few days ago, someone left a comment on one of my open source projects. They'd tried my CLI tool — a 3D print quality inspector called Printsight — …
The One TDD Habit That Saved My Sanity (and My Codebase)
The One TDD Habit That Saved My Sanity (and My Codebase) Quick context (why you're writing this) Here's the thing: I used to think I was doing TDD rig…
Review Doesn’t Scale, Validation Does
Chapter 4 Deep-Dive: From Plan Review to Validation Companion document to “Software Development in the Agentic Era” By Mike, in collaboration with Cla…
Guard Clauses: The Tiny Habit That Saved My Sanity
Guard Clauses: The Tiny Habit That Saved My Sanity Quick context (why you're writing this) Here's the thing: I was once handed a legacy payment‑proces…
What DevOps Implementation Does for Your Business
I've had this conversation more times than I can count: an engineering lead tells me their team is "pretty efficient," then twenty minutes into the ac…
Fallacies of GenAI Development #3: You Can Verify AI Output With Another AI
This is the third in a series of eight posts on the false assumptions teams make when building with generative AI. Fallacy #1 covered why faster gener…
When Did We Stop Laughing at Java? (And Why We Should Be Crying Instead)
Back in 2006, the tech world had a favorite punching bag: Java . We joked about its sluggishness, its memory-hungry JVM, and its "Write Once, Run Anyw…
Amazon SDE I (6 months) 2026 Interview Experience (Off Campus)
This is a breakdown of my interview experience for the Amazon SDE I Intern (July–Dec 2026) role. The process spanned a few months and tested both my t…
Hiring an AI Development Company? 7 Questions to Ask First
Hiring an AI Development Company? Ask These 7 Questions First Most AI projects fail long before deployment. Not because the model is bad. Because team…
How AI Is Reshaping Software Development and the Tech Industry in 2026
Three weeks ago, I stopped writing to watch history unfold. What I witnessed in those twenty-one days changed everything I thought I knew about softwa…
Building Cursor for Community: A Buildathon Built on Time Pressure
Over the weekend, I attended an event hosted by Cursor Kenya , bringing together developers, builders, and tech enthusiasts to explore modern AI-assis…
Best Programming Language for Backend Web Development: PHP vs Python
Something I get asked constantly by developers picking up their second or third language: PHP or Python for the backend? My answer used to be more con…
From Concept to Code: Bringing Your Vision to Life with Michael K. Laweh
Every developer, at some point, faces the exhilarating challenge of taking a raw idea and sculpting it into a functional digital product. It's more th…
Why Fast Development Fails Without Strong Engineering Foundations
Speed has become one of the biggest competitive advantages in software development. Startups want to launch faster. Businesses want features delivered…
Rugby Fundamentals as Software Concepts - Mapping the Pitch to your Code Base
Welcome back to the series and as stated earlier, I am a developer who lives and breathes both clean codes and muddy rucks. In the last post, we estab…