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QA Testing Foundations Series
Ten parts, from requirement analysis to the QA Survival Kit. The testing curriculum nobody hands you on day one.
Spring Boot Microservices Series
Thirteen parts, from empty project to production Kubernetes. The missing 95% of every twelve-line Spring Boot tutorial.
The Human Code Series
A 7-part field guide to the corporate predator. Six species, one habitat, observed in the wild. Which one are you?
The Machine That Reads Badly
A two-part OCR engineering adventure: build an ID-document scanner with Tesseract, then teach it to fix its own predictable mistakes — no machine learning required.
The Continental Rules Series
Seven career parables from the John Wick universe: power, coins, exile, reputation — and Rule Zero.
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✏️ Baba Yaga: The Reputation That Arrives Before You Do
Nobody in the John Wick franchise introduces John Wick. He is introduced by what people already believe about him. Viggo tells a story about a pencil. That story does more work than any CV in the history of employment. Your professional reputation works the same way.
⛓️ Excommunicado: The Anatomy of Professional Exile
At the end of John Wick: Chapter 2, Winston picks up the phone and says one word. In that moment, the hotel becomes hostile, the network becomes a hunting ground, and every ally starts doing maths. Professional exile works the same way. Faster, usually.
🪙 The Gold Coins: The Currency That Isn't on Your Payslip
In the John Wick universe, nobody pays with credit cards. The underworld runs on gold coins that measure trust, not money. Your career runs on the same economy — favours, debts, and reputation that never appear on a payslip but determine everything.
🏨 The Continental: Neutral Ground Is Never Neutral
There is a hotel in the John Wick universe that caters exclusively to assassins. The only rule: no business on the premises. Tech conferences, Slack communities, and industry events run on the same lie. And the person who reads the room outlasts every fighter in it.
🏛️ The High Table: The Rules You Never Voted For
Twelve seats. Unelected. Unaccountable. The John Wick High Table is fiction. The professional version — setting your tools, interview process, and career trajectory without consulting you — is a Tuesday. First in The Continental Rules series.
🪑 The Cobbler's Throne: Stick to the Shoes
In the fourth century BC, a shoemaker told the greatest painter in Greece how to paint. From that moment, the word ultracrepidarian was born. A moral fable about Dunning-Kruger, the Peter Principle, and the question I keep avoiding: how often am I the shoemaker without knowing it?
🤖 The Machine That Reads Badly — Part II: Fixing What the Machine Broke
The OCR engine returned a string where every O is a zero, every filler character is a K, and someone's date of birth starts with a letter. Part II is about building the second machine — the one that takes the first machine's best effort and systematically fixes its predictable mistakes.
🤖 The Machine That Reads Badly — Part I: Teaching Silicon to See
Here's a fun weekend project idea: build an app that scans ID documents. The answer, which you will discover approximately forty-five minutes in, is unreasonably hard. Not because the pieces are complicated — because the moment you connect them, they conspire against you.