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How I Rediscovered My Love for Building With Help From an Invisible Teammate When I first started programming, it was exciting—creative, even intoxicating. I came from a background in electronics engineering, and code felt like this unlimited sandbox where I could invent anything. I dove in enthusiastically, thinking I’d found the perfect side hustle or…
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Intro: Mining isn’t glamorous. It’s dirty, slow, and deliberate.But it’s how value is unearthed. And if you’re building in legal tech, that metaphor might feel a little too real. Because the gold isn’t in the user interface.It’s in the data—specifically, the metadata. And just like ore buried deep in the ground, you have to know…
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Why building alone might be the best way to learn agile for real When you’re building software alone, you’re not just the developer. You’re the product owner, the scrum master, the project manager — the QA, the software manager, the deployment team, and the database engineer too. At first, it can feel like chaos. But…
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By Paul A. Jones, Jr. · July 2025 Most people think of JSON as a simple utility — a way to pass data between frontend and backend, or to store structured values in a flexible way. But in building data infrastructure for a complex, rules-driven domain, I’ve come to view JSON as something far more…
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I’ve been in what my BFF calls “maniac mode.”You know the feeling — when your brain won’t stop solving, the ideas keep stacking, and you’re sprinting between code, product, and business decisions like it’s all one giant puzzle. Lately, I’ve been: • Tuning a legal tech platform that calculates complex legal deadlines• Thinking through client…
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How Eliminating Database-Baked Logging Led to Lighter Code, Easier Testing, and a Reusable Component For too long, I wrestled with a common architectural headache: logging baked directly into stored procedures. It’s a pattern many of us fall into, seemingly convenient at first glance. But, as my application grew, this convenience quickly turned into a quagmire of…
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When I set out to build my first SaaS product, I thought the hardest part would be writing clean code. I figured the technical decisions would carry the most weight — choose the right stack, organize the database, write good tests, ship features. I had no idea I was about to get a crash course…
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By Paul A. Jones Jr., for PaulJonesSoftware.com When most people think about investing, they imagine stocks or property portfolios. But as a developer building SaaS (Software as a Service) applications, I’ve come to realize something striking: a well-built SaaS product is a digital income property. In fact, it behaves so much like real estate that…
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In legal applications, “deleting” data is rarely as simple as it sounds. Records often represent more than rows in a database — they carry evidentiary weight, compliance implications, or even the history of a professional judgment. For software engineers building systems that serve lawyers, firms, or institutions subject to regulation, soft deletes are not just…
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When I first started working on my software platform, I imagined the core of the system as a single, elegant calculator. The logic seemed simple enough: take a few inputs, apply some business rules, return a result. But as I dug deeper into the real-world rules I needed to model, I quickly realized something: I’m…
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