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• Learning Python - Day 6-8: FastAPI, Pydantic, and the Bugs That Taught Me Both Jul 6, 2026

  Three days building an API on top of everything I'd learned so far, and discovering that FastAPI's type hints aren't decoration, they're the actual validation layer, which I only fully believed after watching a raised exception turn into a silent 200 response.

• Learning AWS Day 2: Deploying a Real API to EC2 (And Locking Myself Out Again) Jun 30, 2026

  I spin up an EC2 instance, fix a chmod permissions error that blocked SSH access, and deploy a simple FastAPI app to it so it's reachable from a public URL. AWS Day 2, EC2 edition.