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The Field Log
Every post is a commit against my own understanding. Newest first — war stories from the trenches, in the order they happened.
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The Power of Post-Mortems
Why post-mortems matter beyond the template: accountability, catharsis, what belongs in the doc, and how stakeholder review plus owned action items beat paper theater.
Alexandros Koutroulis · 18 min read · 3,541 words
- 7fc4492 · Security ·
Security Is Not a Feature. It's the Foundation for Apps
Frontend checks without backend authorization spell broken access control—OWASP A01, IDOR, CWEs, rate limits, and why security is the floor.
20 min read
- 596deab · People & Teams ·
Whether You CAN Is Learnable. The Issue Is Whether You WANT To.
Standard management advice says show them the path and they'll want it. Some people genuinely don't want management. Making them try anyway is a failure of leadership—and the no-shame exit ramp isn't a consolation prize. It's the design.
10 min read
- 31aa06c · People & Teams ·
Until It Bleeds: Hive Mind for Complex Features
Stop bleeding alone on complex features. How hive mind programming transforms impossible mountains into walkable hills through distributed cognition and chaos coordination.
18 min read