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Last week I found myself comparing two pull requests: both touched the same service, both under 200 lines, yet one […]

Last Thursday I was reviewing a pull-request for a 200-line Swift UI tweak in the morning and helping untangle a […]

I was approached at a meetup recently right after my talk on system design. Coffee in hand, a junior dev […]

Dear Robert, The two-sentence version: the code isn’t your code, and feeling bruised about it is normal. Everything after this […]

Last Friday I opened my inbox to yet another message that started with, “I don’t have a CS degree, but […]

Dear JK, Your message landed in my inbox late Friday night, right as I was about to close the laptop […]

Networking as an introvert CTO Database Migrations Proper Documentation Habits of great software engineers Networking as an introvert CTO Database […]

I still remember my first week at a mid-size telco in 2011. On Monday I pushed a tiny CSS fix; […]

The first time someone asked me to be their mentor I almost said no. It was 2012, I was knee-deep […]

I wrapped up my backlog last Tuesday by noon and spent the next hour rearranging sticky notes just so it […]

I still remember walking into a new gig a few years back, cloning the repo, and feeling an almost physical […]

This piece is part of the Technical Manager Guide. Think of it as field notes from someone who’s broken more […]

This piece belongs to the ongoing Technical Manager Guide. I’m writing it for leads who suddenly find themselves in charge […]

This piece belongs to the Technical Manager Guide I’m slowly publishing for leads who want to scale without turning into […]

Tuesday’s stand-up started with the same sentence from two different teams — “The build suddenly takes fifteen minutes, what changed?” […]

The first intern I ever coached arrived with an almost comical amount of enthusiasm. I had no onboarding checklist back […]