I love distributed caching. I also love when my SQL Server container does not spike to 100% CPU on a Monday morning because fifty parallel requests hit an expired key at 09:14:02. For years, avoid...

Back in February 2025, I wrote about taming the UUID beast and showed how NEWSEQUENTIALID() kept 1,000,000 clustered index rows under 1% fragmentation. But it always came with an annoying catch: SQ...

The endpoint was /api/users/bad, and my test had a very satisfying red 500 in it. Then I changed the user ID to /api/users/good and discovered that the screen never recovered. The failed request ha...

Angular ships an official migration that moves your unit tests from Karma to Vitest. So you upgrade to Angular 22, run it, and you are done. Right? Here is what it printed for my project: --- Kar...

Setting up Tailwind in an Angular project used to be a small ritual. Install three packages, hand-write a PostCSS config, guess the right filename, edit the global stylesheet, then find out somethi...

I have typed this.fb.group({ ... }) so many times that my fingers do it before my brain catches up. Saturday night they did it again, for the signup page of a weekend project that currently has exa...

Last week I had a browser open on the wrong monitor and couldn’t remember the shortcut to throw it across. I pressed SUPER + K, got a wall of keybindings, and by the time I found the right line I’d...

Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood developer is back-and this time with a small horror story that had a happy ending. My PC lost power out of nowhere. When it booted back up, the big NTFS dr...

I love code review. I also love finishing code review. And if you’ve ever stared at a PR thinking “surely I’m missing something obvious”, you already know the real problem: our brains are not great...

Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood developer is back with another deep dive! Today, we’re going to wrestle with a common performance killer: index fragmentation, specifically when using UNIQU...