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Most people learn law through textbooks, lectures, or practice. I’m learning it by writing code. Every statute of limitations rule I add to my Legal Deadline Engine starts as a vague legal principle and ends as something concrete: a database record, a calculation, an audit trail. The process of translating doctrine into logic is where…
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Most professional service firms today grow the same way they always have: by adding more people. More associates, more consultants, more staff. While that model works, it’s expensive, slow, and sometimes inefficient. Enter Asset-Based Consulting (ABC). Unlike traditional consulting, which scales linearly by hiring more human resources, ABC leverages software assets to multiply the impact…
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When you build a specialized legal tech platform, one of the hardest decisions isn’t the tech stack or the UI — it’s deciding what belongs in the self-service product and what should stay in direct consulting engagements. At first glance, the temptation is to make everything available in software. It feels generous, scalable, and client-friendly.…
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As software engineers, we often face the same problem over and over again: managing a growing number of dependencies across multiple classes that share similar—but slightly different—needs. Today, I want to share a small but impactful refactor I did while developing a SaaS platform that performs complex deadline calculations across various business rules and jurisdictions.…
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72,000 identities exposed—and the irony runs deep. There’s something darkly poetic about what happened with the Tea App. Billed as a place to spill secrets, vent frustrations, and share personal truths under the comforting blanket of anonymity, it quickly became a hotspot for gossip, confessions, and—let’s be honest—cruelty. People used it to air dirty laundry,…
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If you’ve been in tech for a long time but feel invisible to recruiters and hiring managers, it’s probably not your skills that are the problem — it’s your visibility. You can be great at what you do, but if no one knows you exist, you’re not even in the race. I’ve been a contract…
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We talk a lot about code quality, robust architectures, and agile sprints. But what about the most critical system in any software development process: you? Just like the applications we build, our own “human core services” need regular maintenance, bug fixes, and optimization to perform at their best. My recent internal changelog even reflected this:…
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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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