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Minimum viable backup strategy for solo founders

Your managed database is not a backup strategy. Here is how to set up automated snapshots, actually test a restore, and understand RPO and RTO without the jargon.

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docker5 min read

Five Dockerfile patterns that will bite you

Five common Dockerfile mistakes that vibe coders ship without noticing, and exactly how to fix each one in under two minutes.

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security5 min read

Error messages that hand attackers information

Stack traces, raw database errors, and verbose 500 responses tell attackers exactly what they need to know. Here is what bad looks like, what good looks like, and why the gap matters.

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security5 min read

CORS misconceptions in AI-generated code

A practical guide to when wildcard CORS is safe, when it is a serious problem, and why so many AI-generated configs get this wrong by conflating CORS with authentication.

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security5 min read

AI-generated code leaks your secrets more often than you think

AI coding assistants are fast and useful, but they have a consistent blind spot: they will hardcode real secrets straight into your source without warning. Here is what to check before you ship.

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security5 min read

0.0.0.0 is not localhost: what you're actually exposing

Binding a service to 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 puts it on every network interface your machine has, including the public one. Here is what that means, how to spot it, and how to fix it.

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devops5 min read

Unhandled promise rejections are silently crashing production apps

AI-generated async code is optimistic by design — it works in demos but drops errors silently in production. Unhandled rejections either crash Node processes outright or swallow failures with no trace in your logs.

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data-exposure5 min read

Verbose error messages that hand attackers your architecture on a plate

Express default error handlers and unhandled promise rejections that surface stack traces, file paths, and database query strings to API consumers are a data exposure risk. This article covers safe error handling and the logging separation that makes it work.

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security5 min read

AI coding tools write insecure code by default: here's the evidence

AI code assistants ship insecure defaults more often than most developers realize. Here's a look at the patterns researchers and security teams keep finding, and what to actually do about it.