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C# Minimal API: A Practical Way to Keep Endpoints Clean
Minimal APIs make it tempting to write everything inline, but this quickly becomes unmaintainable. When endpoints handle validation, business logic, error handl...
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From Order Taker to Outcome Owner: The New Role of Engineering Firms as Strategic Partners
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How to Learn as a Software Engineer: Lessons from The Pragmatic Programmer
I’ve known about The Pragmatic Programmer for a long time, but I only read it recently. To be honest, it truly deserves its reputation as a classic. Even though...
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A Day in My Life as a Backend Developer
The Bug That Looked Simple… Until It Wasn’t The Usual Morning “Fix inconsistency caused by two DB calls running together.” That’s it. One sentence. The kind of...
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Logging Sucks
Article URL: https://loggingsucks.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346796 Points: 57 Comments: 6...
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Effective Facilitation Techniques: Speaker Queue and Speaker Stack
Background Even engineers have meetings. These discussions or reviews can become quite heated and cover topics not only related to software development but als...
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SpecMD — What if Your Documentation Was Your Code?
The Problem One of the biggest pain points in software development is keeping documentation and code in sync. Documentation is often: - outdated - ignored - in...
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Beyond the Stats: How I Built Textideo.com in 6 Months of Silence
Opening up Dev.to today, my feed is flooded with DEV Wrapped 2025 posts. Commit streaks, reading stats, shiny new badges — all inspiring in their own way. But i...
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Full-Stack Development in the AI Age: Irreplaceable Skills
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The HotfixHero code Manifesto: Seven Rules to Live By
Introduction I hear you. You want the technical specifications on how to stop being an embarrassment to your team. Fine. Writing code that scales and doesn’t i...
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Performance Hints (2023)
Article URL: https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328274 Points: 15 Comments: 16...
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The Duck That Talks Back
The best rubber duck debugging isn’t done with a duck. It’s a conversation with another person where you start explaining what you built, wander into unnecessar...