A lot of self-taught developers think perfectionism is a virtue. You obsess over: the “right” folder structure, the “cleanest” abstraction, the “correct” testing strategy for a to‑do app you never ship. Underneath that, there’s usually one t...

At some point over the last few years, TypeScript stopped being a tool and started becoming a performance art. We went from: “Let’s add types so we catch bugs earlier” to: “Behold my 80-line conditional type that nobody understands, including me....

You’ve been promised “Angular support” more times than you can count. What you got instead was a React library in an Angular costume. A thin compatibility layer. A demo that technically works, but feels wrong the second you try to build something...

For most of my career, I treated my tech stack like a progress bar. More Angular. More RxJS. More Nx. More Supabase. More AI tools. If I just kept adding skills, the ceiling would move up automatically. I kept upgrading my stack and my career ...

I spent an entire weekend building a “small” take‑home assignment. Friday to Monday. Stock data app. Real‑time updates. Angular, WebSockets, Supabase mock. On Monday, I submitted the repo. On Tuesday, I got the rejection. No call. No detailed...

I used to introduce myself as “a Senior Angular Developer.” Seven years of components, RxJS streams, NgModules, Signals, Nx monorepos, CI pipelines, performance audits — the whole thing. On paper, I looked production‑ready. Then I started buil...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...