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Live coding in interviews measures how well people handle the stress of being watched, not how they work. Why I'm against it, what a study on the topic found, what I grant to its defenders and five alternatives that check the same skills without distorting them.
How the handoff from the site's chatbot to a live chat with me works: the banner that appears while you type, the rate-limited REST request, the notification email, the conversation over Socket.IO and the three bugs that never showed up locally.
How and when to refactor state management from RxJS to Signals in Angular: the difference between the two paradigms, a complete step-by-step refactoring with signal, computed and effect, the rxjs-interop bridge and a small signal-based store.
A five-minute method to decide whether a scientific paper is worth reading in full: find it on open-access sources, read the right parts, get help from an AI summary and know exactly what to check by hand.
Interfaces, DTOs, table components, pagination, filters and exports written by hand for every dataset: with Angular and Looker Embedded the data contract lives in the LookML model and one generic component renders any table. Code, benefits, security and limits.
The case study of this site's lab: 13 PDF and AI tools in 7 languages, what runs in the browser and what on the server, limits stated rather than hidden, AI quotas and the mistakes I learned the most from.
The case study of the blog you're reading: articles in seven languages, a translated slug per language that never changes, old links that keep working and a machine translation that broke code blocks until I understood why.