Posts by Steven Stuart

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Steven Stuart

Bringing clarity from complexity
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Mar 2 Articles 12 min read
Let me tell you about Sarah. This is a fictional story. But I bet you’ll recognize it. I’ve seen this pattern play out across different companies, different teams, different tech stacks. The details change. The progression doe...
Dec 17, 2025 Tutorials 2 min read
"It works on my machine." We've all said it. But does your bash script work when the third-party API takes 15 seconds to respond? Does your backend service gracefully handle a sudden spike of 503 errors from a payment provider? Writing a full mock ...
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Dec 9, 2025 Articles 5 min read
For years I have seen teams wrestle with REST in domain-driven systems. They start with clean REST endpoints then gradually compromise as business operations don't map to resource CRUD. After years or just months, they've abandoned most REST principl...
Dec 2, 2025 Articles 3 min read
Introduction In 2025, email remains the beating heart of enterprise collaboration, but it is also the most weaponized channel for cyberattacks. Over 3.8 billion hostile email-based attacks strike worldwide each day, enabled by both primitive miscon...
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Dec 2, 2025 Articles 1 min read
Discover AI Tool Synth — Your Gateway to the Best AI Tools Hey everyone! I’d like to introduce AI Tool Synth, a platform I’ve built to help creators, developers, and businesses easily discover and compare the latest AI tools. We offer: ✅ Curated ...
Nov 28, 2025 Articles 2 min read
Every developer has heard “Don’t Repeat Yourself” DRY 1. How much code reuse is too much? 2. Am I over-abstracting? 3. Should this be a helper? A util? A service? A hook? The truth: Bad DRY creates more problems than it solves. Good DRY makes ...
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Nov 27, 2025 Articles 9 min read
I prefer the clean code that is more often produced by throwing exceptions. With the happy path uncluttered by error handling, the implicit propagation of errors to appropriate orchestration layers, and the clean separation of concerns. It's aestheti...
Nov 27, 2025 Articles 4 min read
I've worked with engineers who had senior titles but didn't lead anyone. I've also worked with junior engineers who mentored half the team. The difference wasn't in their resume or their technical depth; it was in how they approached their work, thei...
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