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Building PO Artifactor
Case Study: An AI-Powered Product Owner Artifact Generator Background As a Product Owner, producing artifacts — from roadmaps to Eisenhower matrices, pitch decks to phase diagrams — is a constant demand. Yet, creating these manually drains time that could be spent on strategy and decision-making. The PO Artifactor project set out to automate this process,…
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From Idea to MVP in a Week
Case Study: My First AI Experiment Background For years, my coworkers and I have bonded over fantasy football through the Sleeper app. Beyond the friendly competition, I always appreciated Sleeper’s intuitive interface and the little UX details that made managing my team a joy. When I discovered they offered a public API, my mind immediately…
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Turning the Job hunt Into a Springboard for New Passion Projects
When I first began exploring new opportunities in the job market, I expected the process to be purely about polishing my resume, sending applications, and preparing for interviews. Instead, it became something much bigger — a personal challenge to prove to myself what I could truly accomplish. Somewhere along the way, I realized I wasn’t…
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Cache 22
How the Observer Design Pattern + Caching Can Turbocharge Your Laravel 12 Apps Introduction: The Cache Conundrum We’ve all been there: your Laravel app is lightning-fast on day one, but as your data grows and user activity spikes, page loads start feeling like they’re stuck in molasses. You add caching to speed things up —…
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Estimation Frustration
Turning a Team’s Hatred of Estimation into a More Productive, Less Stressful Practice If you’ve worked in Scrum for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that estimation is one of the most universally disliked activities in software development. It’s not that people are lazy—it’s that estimating is tricky business. It feels like predicting the…