REST naming cheat-sheet: GET /books → list POST /books → create GET /books/42 → fetch one PATCH /books/42 → partial update DELETE /books/42 → bye Predictable verbs = zero-page API docs.

Use EXISTS instead of COUNT(*) > 0; databases stop at the first match and save I/O.

Deadlines are fictional characters we pretend exist to feel something.

// TODO: ...? More like procrastination

"Works on my machine" is the grown-up version of "the dog ate my homework."

Wow. ChatGPT Deep Research is amazing for planning trips. If you're not using it, you're ACTUALLY missing out.