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Barry Harrin

I’m a software developer with a strong interest in building practical and scal...
Joined April 2026
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Apr 26 Articles 3 min read
When I relaunched Parksy https://www.parksy.com— a two-sided parking marketplace — on Drupal 11, I knew I needed rock-solid conversion tracking. Browser-side GTM alone wasn't going to cut it. Ad blockers, iOS privacy changes, and cookie restrictions ...
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Apr 26 Articles 12 min read
I remember when i first started learning JavaScript everything was so confusing, i felt completely overwhelmed. Variables, Data Types, let, const, Scope, Hoisting, Temporal Dead Zone TDZ... ahh so many things. It felt like everyone else understand...
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Apr 23 Launches 1 min read
Precision cost calculators for AI and SaaS founders....
Apr 23 Articles 2 min read
!Image descriptionhttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/r538dtq5fdogc7rken6l.jpgEvery week a new model drops with a blog post claiming state of the art on some benchmark. But if you look at the full picture across all evaluations,...
Apr 23 Articles 2 min read
Most remote control apps make the same trade: convenience in exchange for your data passing through someone else's server. We wanted to build something different. An app that gives you full control of your Windows computer from your Android device,...
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Apr 23 Articles 1 min read
Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. While template instantiation can be used t...
Apr 23 Videos 1 min read
We are in the AI era. I made this video just to voice my opinion and take points on AI. I use AI, but it can't replace me. So what's your take on AI? If this video helped you, feel free to leave a comment here and engage on my channel1. I read and ...
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Apr 23 Articles 5 min read
There are already a dozen Git GUIs. GitKraken, Fork, Tower, Sourcetree, GitHub Desktop, Sublime Merge, GitButler. Most of them are good. Some of them are excellent. So when people ask why I spent the better part of a year building yet another one, I ...
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Apr 23 Articles 6 min read
Today I worked on one of those bugs that sounds suspiciously simple when someone describes it. "When a new message comes in, the message screen updates. But when I open the chat, the message is not there. If I go back, refresh, and open it again, th...
Apr 23 Articles 1 min read
Last week I introduced you to audit.snakeriverai.com — our AI-powered smart contract security auditor. This week, meet Snake River Auto Blogger. A WordPress plugin that writes SEO-optimized blog posts for your business — automatically — using Claude ...
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Apr 22 Articles 4 min read
Our Story – How Python Togo Began At the heart of Lomé, Togo, a spark was lit not with fire, but with code. This is the story of Python Togo, a community born from passion, fueled by resilience, and driven by the belief that Python can change ...
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Apr 22 Articles 8 min read
You probably don't think of a vineyard as a tech-heavy environment. Rows of grapevines, dirt roads, maybe a tractor parked near a barn. It looks analog. This vineyard is a place where people make decisions by gazing at the sky and relying on their in...
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Apr 22 Articles 1 min read
The Problem Job hunting in 2026 is mostly busywork: Hours scrolling LinkedIn and job portals Customizing the same resume 30+ times same content, different keywords Losing track of applications Missing JD keywords that matter for ATS systems Co...
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Apr 22 Articles 7 min read
I was building a markdown editor for my platform StringTechHubhttps://stringtechhub.com. At some point I needed to decide how to represent the document internally. I could use a plain string, a gap buffer, or a standard rope. Instead I asked a differ...
Apr 20 Articles 8 min read
The database world has always needed a reliable bridge between operational systems and analytical or AI workloads. For decades, Oracle GoldenGate has served that role — silently moving terabytes of transactional changes across databases, clouds, and ...
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Apr 20 Articles 8 min read
Small manufacturing units in the U.S. and EU have spent the last several years absorbing one financial shock after another, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and raw material volatility. But the energy price surge that ran through 2022 and h...
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Apr 19 Articles 3 min read
A practical field guide for engineers who start from the Backstage Helm chart — covering the real configuration gaps, the demo image limitation, and the exact values nesting that makes or breaks your deployment. > Who this is for: Engineers deploy...
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Apr 19 Articles 1 min read
Technical debt is a silent tax on engineering velocity. By the time it is flagged in a pull request, the cost to fix it has already multiplied. Today, I am thrilled to announce the release of DebtDrone CLI 2.0.0—a major architectural milestone that ...
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Apr 19 Launches 2 min read
We didn’t need more audit logs — we needed answers....
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