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…
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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…
The Agent Skills I Use for Development
There are already many posts about what agent skills are and how to create your own, so in this post I want to dive into the various skills I use to a…
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…
Stop Using 'Skills' for Brainstorming. Build a Hook Instead. 🛠️
You know that look? The one where you ask an AI coding agent to "just brainstorm a caching strategy" and suddenly— poof —it's implemented a Redis key-…
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…
Building for Indonesia? What UU PDP Actually Requires From Developers (a Practical Checklist)
If your product touches users in Indonesia, the country's Personal Data Protection Law — UU PDP, Law 27/2022 — is now fully in force. The two-year tra…
Integrating Payments in Indonesia: Midtrans vs Xendit (and When to Pick Which)
If you're shipping anything that takes money in Indonesia, two names come up before all others: Midtrans and Xendit. They're both solid, both support …
Deep Dive into the Spring IoC Container: Unmasking BeanFactory and ApplicationContext
Why Every Spring Boot Developer Must Understand the IoC Container In the modern era of software development, abstracting away complexity has never bee…
Vibe Coding Has Changed the Definition of Software Development. Here's What Still Hasn't Changed.
A few years ago, asking someone if they were a software developer had a straightforward answer. Developers wrote code. They learned programming langua…
Google Authenticator integration with Spring Boot
Google Authenticator Integration with Spring Boot Passwords alone just don't cut it anymore. We've all seen the headlines — data breaches, credential …
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…
Why Prompt Engineering Alone Won't Solve Enterprise AI Adoption
Everyone talks about prompt engineering. Thousands of tutorials. Endless prompt libraries. Countless examples claiming that the "perfect prompt" is th…
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…
QuickBooks API Is a Headache
There is a certain kind of frustration that only developers know. It is not the frustration of a hard problem. Hard problems are satisfying. It is the…
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…
DevOps for Developers: Reducing Cognitive Load and Boosting Transparency
For many developers, DevOps feels like unfamiliar, overcomplicated territory filled with tangled pipelines, cloud infrastructure nuances, and containe…
Vibe Coding Explained: What It Is, Best Tools, and How to Start in 2026
On February 2, 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" - a style of development where you describe what you want in plain English, the AI …
SOLID Principles in Ruby on Rails
SOLID Principles in Ruby on Rails SOLID is not a Rails or Ruby concept. It's a set of five object-oriented design principles that apply to any languag…
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…
Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-30
Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-30 Five substantive PRs merged this week (2026-05-23 through 2026-05-30), two releases shipped. The theme: the awai…
Less Greedy Code, Less Misery: The Power of SRP Through a Battle-Tested Lens
Source : Manul X Published : 2026-05-24T15:13:44.206Z Modified : 2026-05-28T00:41:23.787Z Language : en Author : Manul X Editorial Category : Software…
Mastering Dependency Injection in .NET: A Software Engineer's Secret Weapon
Imagine you are building a modern car. Instead of welding the engine directly to the chassis, you bolt it in. Why? Because if the engine breaks—or if …