I recently decided to try what the internet has termed **vibe coding** with an AI pair-programmer known as **Cursor**—a tool that supposedly integrat...
Please indulge me as I share a dark secret; in the sphere of engineering interviews, I have committed the cardinal sin of “trusting my gut.” Many time...
Permit me to start with a small confession: sometimes, I am the laziest person on Earth. “Lazy” in the sense that I will spend half a Saturday morning...
I’d like to introduce you to a brand-new agile methodology that I’ve dubbed **“the Rake Method,”** inspired by that most serene and deceptively simple...
Let’s begin with an admission: I once believed in microservices the way children believe in the Tooth Fairy—earnestly, uncritically, and with a giddy ...
California man discovers this one weird trick for building modern full-stack applications in TypeScript without losing your sanity. There’s a neat li...
I have a confession that I’m not sure precisely how to begin, a biggish confession about something considered an accepted best practice in software de...
I should come right out and admit that, in my earlier coding days, I was a wide-eyed connoisseur of front-end JavaScript frameworks—React, Angular, Vu...
I want to share an unabashedly positive confession: I love “boring” technology. Love it the way small children love the overly familiar bedtime story...
Allow me to propose a radical notion: **code reviews** can be a source of genuine camaraderie and delight. Yes, you read that right—these seemingly pe...
There is, I have discovered, a rather exotic pleasure in simultaneously grappling with an architecture that demands near-total infallibility^1^ while...
I’d like to propose a radical notion for the land of code sprints, product roadmaps, and constant Slack notifications: **empathy** might be the most i...
It’s a near-universal phenomenon: the sequel. In theory, it should be a joyous reunion, a chance to rediscover characters and worlds we love. But for ...
I have a confession—one that I’ve been harboring ever since I wrote my first “Hello, world” in **Go**. Namely, that I love this language. *Love* as in...
Allow me to start with a personal confession: I used to hoard tasks like they were rare collectibles, each to-do item carefully guarded in my own priv...
So let’s talk productivity hacks, shall we? In a tech industry crammed full of bustling Slack channels, perpetually ticking JIRA boards, and endless e...
I’d like to propose a small riddle: Why, in an age of “digital transformation” and near-limitless tech budgets, do we still see so many hopelessly bug...
Sometimes, in the swirling vortex of coding interviews and hush-hush gossip about “famous tech companies renowned for their engineering,” you might he...
Let’s begin with a small thought experiment: imagine you’re as visionary as Steve Jobs and as intellectually unstoppable as Grace Hopper, yet you have...
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