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I build side projects because I genuinely enjoy it — and it happens to make me a better manager. But let's be clear, it's not a requirement.

Last week a North Korean actor compromised axios — 100 million weekly downloads — because one plaintext npm token was sitting on disk. Here's how I keep zero secrets in my repos.

How I built FormRecap — form abandonment recovery — using Workers, Durable Objects, D1, Queues, and Workflows. No AWS. No Vercel. No external databases.

How I use Terraform to manage DNS, Workers KV, D1, Queues, R2, and AI Gateway across 8 Cloudflare domains — with zero secrets on disk and full disaster recovery.

3 patterns I'm seeing, 2 predictions for the next 6 months, and 1 experiment you can run this week. Management experience might be the best predictor of AI success.

It's not years of experience or a title on LinkedIn. A senior engineer is a force multiplier — and that distinction matters more than ever when a quarter of junior roles now carry senior titles.