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Developer Superstitions We All Secretly Follow (and Why They Work)

Developer Superstitions We All Secretly Follow (and Why They Work)

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No Friday deploys, never say the Q word on call, and never touch the file that works. Most developer superstitions are real engineering lessons in disguise, and each one points to a better habit.

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Me vs "Just One Small Change": A Scope Creep Chain Reaction

Me vs "Just One Small Change": A Scope Creep Chain Reaction

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"Can we just add one field?" arrives on Thursday afternoon. By Friday it touches the app, the PDFs, the exports and the tests. A scope creep chain reaction, and the habits that keep small changes small.

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Me vs the Legacy Codebase: A Week in Five Acts

Me vs the Legacy Codebase: A Week in Five Acts

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Monday: a function called processData2_new_FINAL. Tuesday: the urge to rewrite everything. Wednesday: the code turns out to know things. A funny, familiar week with legacy code, and what actually works: characterization tests and the strangler pattern.

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Naming Things: A Tour of the Hardest Problem in Computer Science

Naming Things: A Tour of the Hardest Problem in Computer Science

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$data2, $temp, finalFINAL_v3 and a getUser() that secretly creates users. A light tour of the naming hall of fame, why bad names are often a design smell, and seven rules that actually help.

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Me vs CORS: A Love Story in Five Bad Ideas and One Good One

Me vs CORS: A Love Story in Five Bad Ideas and One Good One

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Every developer's relationship with CORS goes through the same stages: denial, wildcards, browser flags and bargaining. Here are the bad ideas we all try, why they fail, and the boring fix that actually works.

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Ten Signs You've Been a Developer Too Long

Ten Signs You've Been a Developer Too Long

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You read stack traces for fun, naming a variable takes longer than writing the function, and you count from zero at roundabouts. Ten symptoms of developer life, a score, and one habit worth keeping.

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01. About Shiroz

Mohammed Shiroz

Hi, I'm Mohammed Shiroz, a software engineer and AI enthusiast from Sri Lanka who turns ideas into intelligent, real-world solutions. With over 9 years of hands-on experience, I currently lead real estate ERP development at Kate Group, a...

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