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Maintainability
How to enable TypeScript strict mode on an AI-built app: turn it on, fix what it finds, keep the suppressions out
Revenue
How to enforce plan limits on the backend: server-side entitlements the customer cannot reach
Maintainability
How to find unused code in a repo: dead code and duplicated logic in an AI-built app, removed without breaking anything
Revenue
How to integrate Stripe into a working app: what a correct integration contains, end to end
Revenue
How to make a webhook handler idempotent: one event, one business effect, however many times it arrives
Compliance
How to manage SaaS data compliance in your own app: the eight controls a customer, a regulator and a buyer ask for
Compliance
How to redact personal data before LLM calls: what leaves your app, what to cut, and the terms behind each provider
Revenue
How to set up Stripe customer portal so invoices, card changes and plan changes stop arriving as support email
Revenue
How to test webhooks: create the Stripe endpoint, find the signing secret, and get from a CLI test to the first real event
Security
JWT security for a live app: expiry, refresh rotation, and revocation that actually revokes
Revenue
How to keep Stripe subscriptions in sync with database records: the reconciliation query, the six ways they drift, and the weekly job
Maintainability
Legacy code takeover: a first-month plan for the engineer who inherited a codebase nobody can explain
Maintainability
Linters and formatters on a codebase an AI wrote: one config, the rules worth failing a build over, and the suppressions to watch
Stability
Logs severity levels in production: debug, info, warn, error, and what stays switched on
Compliance
MVSP and the SOC 2-style controls checklist: what an enterprise buyer expects, and the evidence behind each line
Security
NIST minimum password length, and the rest of the current password guidance: what to set in your app and what to stop doing
Stability
No idea where users drop off: the four product events to instrument, and how to prove they fire
Stability