Articles
JUNE 2026
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The Missing Number: Three Ways to Crack a Classic Interview Question
A classic interview puzzle: find the one missing number in an array of 1 to 100. From the obvious first instinct to a trick that made a CEO pause — three ways to solve it, compared.
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Closing a TODO: My First Test Contribution to supabase-kt
How I turned a one-line //TODO in the Supabase Kotlin SDK into a merged pull request — finding the gap, mirroring existing patterns, and learning why downloads behave differently from uploads.
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Why LLMs Couldn't Count the R's in "Strawberry" — and How Spelling It Out Fixed It
An AI that writes essays and debugs code couldn't count the r's in "strawberry." The reason reveals how LLMs really see text — and the fix is simply spelling it out.