Bonfire Bytes.
Field notes from the digital wilderness. Software, systems, product work, and the occasional rant by — a product-minded developer in Sarajevo. Opinions are mine. Tomfoolery corrected via email.
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Featured
04 pinnedHow Information Overload is Making Coders Compile Coffee Instead of Code
Updated: at 12:00 AMHow constant Slack pings, context switching, and always-on work drain a developer's focus—and the practical habits I use to protect deep work.
- #productivity
- #developer-tips
Up Is Not Up When You're Stuck in an Avalanche
Updated: at 12:00 AMAI is quietly replacing the uncomfortable parts of thinking. A field note on synthetic confidence, product discovery, and staying close to reality.
- #ai
- #product
- #discovery
- #rant
The Feature Everyone Thought Existed
Published: at 11:00 PMHow users, domain experts, product teams, and developers end up working from different versions of the same product—and how AI turns assumption debt into synthetic certainty.
- #product-engineering
- #ai
- #discovery
- #collaboration
- #fintech
Who Let the Servers Out? Tracing the Roots of Serverless Tech
Updated: at 11:53 PMContext is key. Don’t take a knife to a gunfight. If you’re running a small startup, serverless might work for you—sometimes. If your startup is medium-sized and well-funded, a solid monolith could be a better fit. It’s dependable and can adapt into microservices if needed. But, hold off on microservices unless your company is large and needs to scale quickly.
- #architecture
- #aws-lambda
- #serverless
Recent
01 of 01AI Can Help Product Discovery. It Cannot Do Product Discovery.
Published: at 10:45 PMA practical framework for using AI in product discovery without replacing user research, manufacturing evidence, or turning generated assumptions into roadmaps.
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- #product-discovery
- #product-engineering
- #user-research
- #decision-making