How do you know the number is still live?
On a monitoring panel numbers sit quietly. Whether they are updating or the screen has frozen was impossible to tell.
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The test was wiping the database
I fixed about ten bugs in one day. One of them was a serious hazard I noticed by accident.
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Building so that search engines can see it
I built a materials catalogue for students. If search cannot find it, the whole thing is pointless.
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I stopped styling every screen separately
As screens multiplied they stopped resembling each other. The cause was styling each one separately.
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The server lacked the tool — I found another way
Publishing the course content needed a certain tool. The server did not have it, and installing it was not right either.
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I deleted the contact form and put links instead
Writing a form is easy; making it reliable is not. After thinking it through, I removed it entirely.
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The page silently bounced you back
If a user typed the wrong password, the page bounced back to login without a word. Why remained a mystery.
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A dollar sign broke the password
The password hash was right, the check was right, but logging in failed. One character was to blame.
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From a bot to a Mini App: order of code matters
I built an app that opens inside Telegram. The command list sometimes appeared and sometimes did not.
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I started seeing where people get stuck
I knew a user had opened a course. How far they got was invisible. I filled that gap.
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Everyone should see only what belongs to them
On the platform every course was open to everyone. Access had to depend on what each person was granted.
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I removed the login screen
The first screen of the workout app was a sign-up form. After using it myself, I removed it entirely.
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