I've been building web applications for 8 years, and locale handling has always been my silent killer. Date formats break in production, currency symbols get mangled, timezone calculations drift—all caught too late. That's why I took TestSprite for a real project spin. Integration testing is boring, expensive, and brittle. Write 100 Selenium tests, change the UI once, watch 60 fail. Most teams eit
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it