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Software Engineering

Building and maintaining software that has to survive real, daily use: data models, access control, admin interfaces and the work that comes after launch.

Most of this comes out of RPOMS.

Software Engineering

When Not to Fall Back to Another AI Provider

Automatic failover between model vendors is easy to build and easy to build wrong. Most errors should never trigger it.

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Software Engineering

Making an LLM Admit the Paper Doesn't Say That

The dangerous failure of an AI summarising tool is not a blank answer. It is a plausible one about a section that was never in the source. Enforcing that in three places.

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Software Engineering

Verifying a Static Site You Built by Hand

Hand-written HTML has no type checker and no test runner. On a production build I wrote the guarantees instead, as a post-build script that fails the build.

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Software Engineering

Why Internal Software Needs Good UX

Internal tools get less design attention than public products, even though the people using them have no choice but to use them.

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Software Engineering

Why System Maintenance Matters After Deployment

Shipping an operational system is the start of the work, not the end. What ongoing maintenance actually involves.

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Software Engineering

How Admin Panels Help Manage Operational Data

What a well-designed admin panel actually needs to do for a production or operations system, beyond CRUD screens.

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