Payment Systems: the simple map and the messy details (so you don’t learn them the hard way)

People imagine payments are “just” clicking a button. In reality, a payment system is a small army of components working together under tight compliance rules, strict latency requirements, and...

🌀 Node.js Event Loop: Microtasks vs Macrotasks (Explained with Fun!)

If you’ve been working with Node.js and sometimes wonder “Why does my Promise run before my setTimeout?”, or “Why did this async callback execute earlier than I expected?” — it’s all thanks to the...

GPT-5 Prompting Guide (Simplified & Practical)

Why This MattersGPT-5 is more sensitive than past models to how you ask.The way you write the prompt — tone, structure, and clarity — can make or break the quality of the answer.1. Core Rules...

Building great SDKs

As devs, we use software development kits (SDKs) to build any and all functionality for apps. Want to build a cloud service on AWS? You’ll use the AWS SDK. Integrating Stripe to an app? It will be...

Why uv is Killing Traditional Python Tooling (And Why You Should Care)

The Python tooling ecosystem has been a mess for years. pip is slow, poetry is bloated, pipenv is abandoned, and pyenv barely works on Windows. Enter uv — a single Rust binary that's about to make...

When Your CS Professor Was Wrong: Arrays Beat Sets (Sometimes)

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love O(n)Remember that smug feeling when you learned about Big O notation? When you could finally look at someone using array.includes() and think "pfft, O(n)...