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From Nuclear Engineering to Software: What Actually Transferred

Reactor thermal-hydraulics and REST APIs have more in common than you'd think

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Why I Rebuilt My Portfolio CMS Three Times

Three rewrites of the same portfolio CMS taught me more about scoping a 48-hour MVP than any of the finished versions did.

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Refactoring FieldTask: How I Cut Build Times 6x

How I migrated FieldTask's frontend from Babel to Vite, cut CI build times 6x, and sped up local development by 43% without a single broken deploy.

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