Posts by Bryan MacLee

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Apart from life itself. Programming is The truest form of magic that we humans h...
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3 days Articles 5 min read
Most software systems are built around a simple assumption: The price is already known. A product has a price. A ticket has a price. A hotel room has a price. A delivery has a price. The application simply retrieves that number from a databas...
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6 days Articles 2 min read
This series is for the OG nerds. The ones who love code, not because AI has made it easier, and not because you can build a career out of it, but because you genuinely love it. For those who think about code before they sleep. For those who have sl...
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Sep 12 Articles 3 min read
I am Jack's . Jack declares me once, in one file, for the whole application. Everything he writes lives inside me — his markup, his logic, his styles, his database. There is a line running through me. On one side is Jack's server. On the other is a...
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Sep 8 Articles 9 min read
I didn't set out to reject go get. I just wanted to build something clean. But somewhere between the first snapshot corruption and the fourth complete rewrite, I realized: zero dependencies wasn't a constraint. It was a feature. This is the real sto...
Sep 7 Videos 1 min read
How did developers get answers before AI? 😂 From ancient stone tablets to Google, Stack Overflow, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Grok… developers have come a LONG way! 🤣 But the real question is… 🤔 What comes next? Watch until the end! 😂 🚀...
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Sep 6 Articles 3 min read
Or: why I didn't use Manacher's algorithm and still got 217 new palindromes The Idea Everyone knows crafted palindromes like "Never odd or even" or "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". They're beautiful, but they're constructed — someone sat down a...
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Sep 3 Articles 2 min read
If you give a dev an enum, they're going to ask if they can match on it. When you let them match on it, they'll want to know they got it all. So the compiler counts. And it finds one. It says E-MATCH-NOT-EXHAUSTIVE, and it names the variant: .Empt...
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Sep 2 Articles 2 min read
If you give a dev an enum, they're going to ask if they can match on it. When you let them match on it, they'll want to know they got it all. So the compiler counts. And it finds one. It says E-MATCH-NOT-EXHAUSTIVE, and it names the variant: .Empt...
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Aug 31 Articles 2 min read
If you give a dev an enum, they're going to ask if they can match on it. When you let them match on it, they'll want to know they got it all. So the compiler counts. And it finds one. It says E-MATCH-NOT-EXHAUSTIVE, and it names the variant: .Empt...
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Aug 30 Articles 5 min read
Almost every fictional story Hollywood has produced about technology makes the same unforgivable mistake: reducing computing to black screens with blinking green monospace fonts, futuristic 3D user interfaces, and rogue hackers breaching government f...
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Aug 26 Articles 1 min read
I love programming! Not just the act of writing code; but also learning about it's history, it's outliers, the reasonings behind the chaotic and beautiful tumbling of dominoes that led to this perpetual Pandora's puzzle box, simultaneously solved, an...
Aug 26 Articles 4 min read
If you are a React developer stuck in tutorial hell with no real portfolio, this walkthrough is for you. In this article, I’ll break down how I built a React portfolio website with Vite and Tailwind CSS that helped me land ₹1.2L+ in freelance projec...
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Aug 23 Articles 2 min read
As developers, we’ve all done it. You search for a problem, find a solution on Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or an AI tool, copy the code, make a few changes—and finally, it works. But then someone asks: “Can you explain how this works?” And s...
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