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I keep a 50‑row demo database in the repo — and the day it almost leaked PII
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Why I stopped full rebuilds and started file‑watch restarts for local Docker development
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Why I build as a second Linux user on my laptop — and the demo it saved
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The 10‑Second Preflight Script That Stopped My 'It Works on My Machine' Fridays (and the morning it refused to run)
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Why I run a local S3 (MinIO) for fast payment/file testing — and the one bug it didn't catch
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Disposable QEMU VMs: the one‑snapshot trick I use for risky dependency upgrades
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The 2‑Minute Schema Check I Run Before Restoring a Staging DB Snapshot
