Introduction I was sick of constantly jumping between Spotlight, the terminal, and an AI chatbot just to run simple tasks. So I built Castor, a Spotlight‑style...
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Overview After letting the internet shape our game’s genre, setting, and characters, we’ve finally reached the point where ideas turn into a build. Day 1 start...
I’ve applied to Outreachy twice before this round. Both times, I didn’t get in. By my third application, I had stopped expecting anything. I just told myself I...
Figuring Things Out as I Went In these first few weeks, I didn’t try to understand everything at once. Instead, I focused on small things—reading through files...
Article on Ludum Darehttps://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/$425291/$425292 Discussion on Hacker Newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787587...
RIP Agile, we hardly knew ye. And I mean that literally – because no one was ever clear on what it was. Agile washed over our industry like a tsunami. But whene...
The Problem It’s Worse Than You Think When a non‑technical person asks “what’s an API?”, you can use a waiter or a mailman analogy. They’ll be happy. But when...
Introducción Hace unas semanas tuvimos una iniciativa en el trabajo donde nos enseñaron el flujo de SDD con GitHub SpecKit. Durante dos semanas intensas config...
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There’s a specific kind of panic that hits when your app is broken, your teammate is silent, and the deadline is near. Nobody warns you about that part. At my f...
Recap of the Talk I just wrapped up my talk at jsDay 2026. It went well—people showed up, asked questions, and the vibe was exactly what I love: a room full of...
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Security Testing: What We’ve Seen We’ve done security testing for companies in fintech, healthcare, logistics, and government contracting. The one thing they a...
I don't have anything against AI, but HN and everywhere else seems to be drowning in AI at the moment. It feels like every man and his dog is building an AI age...
The Pattern I Keep Seeing > A team estimates a feature at 5 story points – low complexity, clear requirements, well‑understood domain. By every estimation fram...
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GitHub Universe 2025 – Call for Sessions Everyone’s favorite global developer event is back for another year of learning, connection, building, and donuts. We h...
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Two weeks ago, my coworker merged a feature branch on Friday afternoon. By Monday morning, half our test suite was red. Nobody knew which commit broke things. T...
Experiment Overview I ran a simple experiment with the same codebase: - One AI rated it 9/10 production‑ready. - The other rated it 5/10. At first glance it se...
In the world of software development, the terms programming language and scripting language are often used interchangeably. However, they have distinct purposes...
Most teams calculate ROI after launch. We prefer to model it before implementation starts—not because forecasts are perfect, but because they force better decis...
A lot of teams jump straight into features, which usually leads to one of two outcomes: - overspend on low‑impact work - underbuild critical foundations A bette...
The Discipline of Not Fooling Ourselves: Episode 4 — The Interpreters of the Rules After three episodes, we’ve seen the quiet signals of failure form before th...
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Welcome back to the AutoLearn development blog. Following our deep‑dive into the “Seed Phase” research where we mapped the vulnerabilities of the gig economy, w...
AI is reshaping software development by accelerating coding, testing, and reviews while reinforcing the need for human judgment and oversight....
On May 18 , 1969, NASA launched Apollo 10. Three astronauts — Tom Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan — flew to the Moon, entered lunar orbit, and descended t...
Mistake 1: Going Silent No Updates Clients don’t have visibility into your process. When you assume “no news is good news,” they wonder if you’re still alive....
Announcement of the new White House app On March 27, the White House announcedhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/new-white-house-app-delivers-unparall...
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There's a layer underneath the actual work — the culture layer. It quietly shapes how you spend your days, how you get paid, and whether people see you as relia...
What is Git? Git is a tool that remembers every step of your project, lets people work together without stepping on each other’s toes, and makes it easy to und...
Introduction > Let me say something that a lot of engineering teams are thinking but not saying out loud: sprints are not working anymore. Not for everyone, an...
The Power of Clean Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Better Software Development As a developer, you've probably heard the phrase clean code thrown around, but wha...
Open Source Is Not a Charity. It's a Competitive Edge. Most executives hear “open source” and think: free software made by volunteers. That assumption leaves m...
Argument for Charging Access > “It’s time to charge for access,” argues a new opinion piece at The Registerhttps://www.theregister.com. > Begging billion‑dolla...
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Introduction Hey there! Welcome to my personal blog. This is written by me—no AI tools involved. I’m a 26‑year‑old IT employee working a typical 9‑to‑5 job. I’...
Overview MetaTrader 5 MT5 introduced a cleaner API than MT4, but the integration architecture for CRM sync has its own considerations. Below is a practical gui...
If you're the kind of developer who watches Activity Monitor more than Netflix, profiles everything before shipping, and gets genuinely excited when a build sha...
Why Maintainable Code Matters As a software developer, I've come to realize that the most important aspect of writing code is not how perfect or elegant it is,...
Phase 1 – Clarity In the initial phase we spent time understanding the problem from the ground up — the users, their constraints, and what actually matters in...
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Week 4 Polish We finally made it to Week 4! This last week of the sprint was all about crossing the t’s, dotting the i’s, and making sure the app actually feel...
The purpose of a plan In software development, we love to make plans. We plan everything from 2‑week sprints to 5‑year roadmaps. The point of having a plan, fo...
