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Developer, father, occasional cook.
I build things for the web, write about code and life, and try to make sense of both. This is where I keep the things I figure out along the way.
Fred Lackey
Full-stack engineer with 20+ years shipping APIs, wrangling databases, and writing JavaScript before it was cool. Based in the U.S., building infrastructure tools by day and pancakes by weekend.
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Building a CLI Tool That Accidentally Taught Me About Patience
February 12, 2026
Experience
20+
years shipping software
Writing
64
published articles
The best code I ever wrote was the code I decided not to write.— from "Twelve Things I Believed About Software That Turned Out to Be Wrong"