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My Daily Coding Stack
I'm a backend engineer at a startup. This is what I actually have open every day — not what I planned to use when I started, but what stuck after six months.
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The engineering infrastructure for a 2-8 person startup that needs to move fast, ship reliably, catch errors before users report them, and actually understand what's happening inside the product.
Workflow stack
CI/CD
Automated testing, linting, and deployment pipelines that live in the same repository — no separate CircleCI account, no YAML in a different system to maintain.
Open tool profileIssue tracking
Issue tracker that moves as fast as the engineering team — keyboard-driven, opinionated workflow, and deep GitHub integration so issues close automatically on merge.
Open tool profileDeployment
Preview deployments on every pull request let designers and PMs review changes before merge — production deploys happen on push to main with zero configuration.
Open tool profileError tracking
Catches unhandled exceptions with full stack traces and git blame before users open a support ticket — set an alert threshold and the on-call engineer gets a Slack ping.
Open tool profileProduct analytics
Product analytics, session replay, and feature flags in one tool — understand which features users actually use without juggling Mixpanel, Hotjar, and LaunchDarkly separately.
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