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About: Dev tips for folks who break things on purpose. Cloud, AI, and DevOps workflows that work. Daily stories, scars, and lessons. videos: youtube.com/@Runitbare

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After using n8n, Zapier, and Make here’s what matters (and what doesn’t)

What I learned once automation stopped being fun and started becoming infrastructure Automation is...

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In 30 years of tech, my friend faced the anxiety, sacrifice, and reality of being laid off

A quiet story about a long tech career, the time it takes from you, and what’s left when the job is...

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How hero culture quietly sneaks into our engineering teams and burns people out

It doesn’t start with ego or ambition. It starts with good intentions, late nights, and being told...

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10 n8n automations every developer should run before they burn out

The quiet workflows stealing your focus and the automations that give it back I didn’t start...

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AI agents aren’t a feature, they’re a full-stack system

Why building agents forces you to think across frontend, backend, data, and operations at once Right...

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Finally, no more headaches collecting technical documentation

How AI is quietly fixing the most frustrating part of working with docs If you’ve been building...

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Why your “simple” react app exploded

How a tiny feature quietly turned into a frontend ecosystem and why that’s starting to feel wrong It...

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Top programming languages to learn in 2026

A practical breakdown by frontend, backend, mobile, systems, and real-world use cases Every year,...

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AI killed my coding brain but I’m rebuilding it (Part 2)

We sprinted into the AI age of autocomplete IDEs now we’re waking up wondering why we forgot how to...

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Can’t stay motivated while coding? This is how software engineers actually get motivated

The hard truth about motivation, discipline, and why waiting to “feel it” quietly kills your...

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LLMs, RAG, and Vector Databases Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained

Why AI apps sound smart in demos, fall apart in production, and how this stack actually works Every...

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I build AI features like a final boss: the 7 dangerous assumptions teams keep making

Shipping AI looked easy. that’s how Iknew something was wrong. Press enter or click to view image in...

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I tried every ChatGPT prompt list. these 20 finally worked

Not “10x productivity.” Not hype. Just prompts that give usable answers when real work starts. At...

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We removed half our DevOps tools in 2026 nothing broke

Cutting our stack in half didn’t cause outages, incidents, or panic. It caused silence. And that was...

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I reviewed 126,000 tech layoffs. These 5 skills still got hired in 2026.

The layoffs weren’t random. The hype didn’t save anyone. And the survivors all seem to share the...

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“Just use aws” is starting to sound like bad advice in 2026

It used to be the safest answer in tech. now it feels like autopilot and sometimes, a trap. There...

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Apple broke our cloud build in production. Here's what actually failed:

Not by accident, not overnight but in ways every backend-heavy dev eventually feels The cloud used...

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Vibe coding is gone? the logs don’t lie.

Why vibe coding felt like god mode and why production shut it down fast For a short, dangerous...

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I Miss Writing Code No One Was Going to See

How coding went from curiosity to performance and why it feels heavier now There was a time when...

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Python in 2026: is it dying, or are we just done lying to ourselves?

Python still runs half the internet so why do so many developers feel weirdly tired of it?This...

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Why nobody wants to hire developers anymore (and what actually fixes it)

The market didn’t get “more competitive.” it got more broken: ghost listings, ats bots, and roles...

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Why nobody wants to hire developers anymore (and what actually fixes it)

The market didn’t get “more competitive.” it got more broken: ghost listings, ats bots, and roles...

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10 best AI engineering courses for developers (I reviewed 50 so you don’t have to)

Most “top 10” lists are recycled. I tested the courses, scored them, and kept the ones that actually...

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I spent years mastering Git, then Lazygit made me faster in a week.

Why the “real devs use raw Git” mindset is quietly holding us back I didn’t want to like...

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You’re not building Netflix stop coding like you are.

Why we keep over-engineering tiny apps like they’re prepping for a global launch and what actually...

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The hidden burnout devs face even when they love the work

A story about hitting the wall no one talks about the one that shows up even when you’re doing the...

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The 3 books that finally rewired my developer brain

I ignored programming books for years then three of them flipped my entire mental model of code,...

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Am I still a real developer if AI writes half my code?

A confession, a small identity crisis, and the weird guilt nobody warned us about when coding...

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Kubernetes Just Retired the Ingress Everyone Thought Was “The Default”

The community-backed Ingress-NGINX is officially on the way out here’s why it happened, why nobody...

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30 days without AI: what I learned when I finally used my brain again

I quit AI for 30 days and found something I didn’t expect: my brain still had opinions. I didn’t...

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