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Daily Summary Nothing happened in the repo today. No commits on any branch, no uncommitted work detected, clean working tree on main. The test matrix is still...

Introducción Merge Sort es un algoritmo de ordenamiento basado en el paradigma Divide y Vencerás. Divide recursivamente el arreglo en mitades hasta llegar a el...

Question I’ve spent roughly the last decade and some change as a software engineer, and recently decided to start a solo consultancy. I’m focused on helping SM...

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In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Meet Emin Gerba, Technology & Product Chief A...

Release Overview Anthropic releasedhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Claude Opus 4.7, describing it as its strongest generally available model. Th...

!https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/04/claude-opus-4-7-.webp?w=1600 Anthropic has today announced its latest Claude model, Opus 4.7, which m...

!https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2026/04/claude-opus-4-7.webp?w=1600 Opus 4.7 needs less supervision for harder coding tasks Claude Opus 4.7 is t...

Imagine you don't know anything about programming, and you want to learn how to do it. You take a look at Amazon.com, and there's a highly recommended set of bo...

Large language models LLMs have fixed knowledge, being trained at a specific point in time. Software engineering practices are fast‑paced and change often, with...

What I originally built !GTM Job Intelligence Platformhttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/t1mzvnhbdbdascme1aky.png My GTM Job Intelligence...

Stop Cargo-Culting Shadow Deployments: I’ve Seen Them Kill Production We’ve been sold a lie. Engineers love a free lunch, and Shadow Deploymentshttps://krun.pr...

Why refactoring was one of the first topics we wanted to teach this way Refactoring looks simple when you only see the polished version. A blog post shows ugly...

The Problem There’s a specific kind of despair that comes from opening the ninth spreadsheet in a WCAG audit—the one you’re pretty sure somebody duplicated fro...

Large language models LLMs have fixed knowledge, being trained at a specific point in time. Software engineering practices are fast‑paced and change often, with...

The Problem with Giant Pull Requests I used to open PRs with 800 lines changed and wonder why my team took two days to review them. As one of the founding engi...

From Skyscrapers to Sheds: What Keeps an Engineer Alive Constructing a skyscraper is a massive undertaking. You need architectural blueprints, council permits,...

Engineering at Scale vs. Side Projects Constructing a skyscraper is a massive undertaking. You need architectural blueprints, council permits, and safety audit...

v0.1.5 You have an architecture decision record. A Confluence page. Maybe a Miro board with boxes and arrows that everyone agreed on in the last design review....

Situation It was 2:07 AM. Production was down, but nothing looked wrong: - CPU usage → normal - Memory → stable - Logs → clean Yet users were dropping. There w...

I used to work in software development in the mobile industry, and now I develop software at a camera module company. We make camera modules for smartphones and...

Background I shipped WhatShipped in about a week—not because I’m exceptionally fast, but because I finally stopped optimizing for building instead of for shipp...

The Problem with Indian Addresses Every country has address quirks. India’s are in a league of their own. - No universal street‑numbering system. - The same ci...

Large language models LLMs have fixed knowledge, being trained at a specific point in time. Software engineering practices are fast‑paced and change often, with...

The hidden cost of contributing to open source Open source is supposed to be liberating. You learn in public, collaborate with strangers, and build a reputatio...

> In case you missed it, back in January 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated: > > “I think we might be 6 to 12 months...

The Rise of AI‑Generated Code and Pull‑Request Overload With the rise of AI‑generated code, reviewing pull requests has become more challenging than before. On...

Motivation I built a developer tool at 16 because I was frustrated with how hard it was to understand new codebases. Every time I opened a larger project, I fe...

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Deploying AI Agents for Repository‑Scale Tasks Deploying AI agents for repository‑scale tasks like bug detection, patch verification, and code review requires...

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TL;DR - Technical debt behaves like a high‑interest loan: it feels cheap at first, but becomes expensive over time. - The real problem isn’t having technical d...

Introduction Every developer has faced the dilemma of choosing between writing clean, well‑structured code and shipping a feature quickly. Both are important,...

I recently spent hours debugging a particularly nasty issue in a codebase where I had cut corners to meet a tight deadline. What should have been a simple fix t...

Good Work Does Not Automatically Become Visible This is the painful part. A lot of developers believe quality speaks for itself. Sometimes it does. Usually it...

Pursuing Correctness as Developers As developers, we are trained from school to prioritize correctness. We focus on logic, clean architecture, and passing test...

The Problem with Plans For years I jumped from job to job—being fired, bored, or laid off—without a clear career plan. I thought a “plan” was a detailed bluepr...

Update Surprisingly and happily my last post on version controlhttps://bramcohen.com/p/manyana got picked up by Hacker News and received a lot of views. Thanks...

Introduction I've had a Dev.to account for two years—zero posts. Not because I have nothing to say; quite the opposite. I kept waiting until I knew enough to s...

The Real Problem Most people jump straight into tables—that’s the mistake. A database is not where you start; it’s where you arrive after understanding the sys...

OAuth is everywhere and most developers use it without really understanding what's happening under the hood. You click “Sign in with Google,” magic happens, and...

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TL;DR Engineering is often the art of managing the “unhappy path.” This week was a testament to that philosophy. With 74 commits, 2 PRs, 3 issues, and 3 review...

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What’s really going on? Everyone says they do DevOps. Your job posting says it. Your LinkedIn says it. The new VP of Engineering definitely said it in his firs...

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The debate between taking the traditional Computer Science university route versus the self‑taught path is as old as the tech industry itself. Having spent year...