Every phase of learning teaches us something new — but one realization keeps repeating itself: What we learn in theory is often very different from what we expe...

The Unseen Work of a Developer I've been thinking about this topic for a long time and finally decided to write it down. The whole business of evaluating code...

Self‑Replication, Cellular Automata, and Emergent Complexity In the 1940s, John von Neumann proved that a cellular automaton could replicate itself. His design...

Why Trust Matters More Than Code Generation There are many code generators that can create CRUD resources from a config file. On paper, that sounds great. In p...

Introduction The tech industry thrives on innovation, yet behind every product and line of code lies a journey of growth, resilience, and learning. Over the pa...

Why SRP Matters In my years of building web applications, I've come to believe that the Single Responsibility Principle SRP is the most critical architectural...

What Really Changes Over Time When people hear that I have 8 years of experience in AI and full‑stack development, they usually imagine a story full of breakth...

Hi! My name is Ellie, and I'm a full‑stack software developer. This is my first blog, and I'll admit I'm feeling a little self‑conscious about it. There are so...

Reviewing Claude’s Code Output Efficiently Creating new features, reviewing production logs, or fixing bug reports can be done at incredible speed with coding...

I am a third‑year CSE student, and last week someone handed me a problem statement and said, “Build a startup in six weeks.” Not a college project. Not an assig...

Internationalizing Your App — A Pragmatic Approach > “We should support Spanish” is a sentence that strikes fear into engineering teams. Not because translatio...

Git remembers the past. AI imagines the future. Between them, engineers shape gravity. Software engineering exists between two kinds of time: the past and the f...

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Introduction LeetCode has become a dominant focus for many developers preparing for technical interviews. While solving algorithmic problems can sharpen certai...

95% of engineers fail system design interviews — not because they lack knowledge, but because they lack structure. System Design Master Template A universal blu...

Over the past couple of years I’ve built and run a niche job board for software engineers looking for work in Dubai and Saudi Arabia. What started as a small si...

Code reviews are the heartbeat of a healthy engineering team. They are our primary mechanism for ensuring quality, sharing knowledge, and maintaining consistenc...

Engineering Relativity The same object is lighter on the Moon and heavier on Jupiter. The same thing happens in codebases. In Chapter 7 I talked about the univ...

I've reviewed hundreds of developer portfolios. 90 % of them are beautiful but completely useless for getting hired. Hiring managers spend less than 30 seconds...

This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challengehttps://dev.to/challenges/wecoded-2026: Echoes of Experience For a long time, I had nothing on paper that loo...

Large code refactors usually happen through fragile scripts, regex sorcery, and the occasional ritual chicken What if transformations themselves were portable,...

The First Application On a whim, I applied to a defense tech company. Their recruiter emailed me three hours later. We had a phone screen the next day, a codin...

AI usage is rising rapidly, but the impact on engineering productivity is more modest than many hype‑driven narratives suggest. Social media and vendor marketin...

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Beyond React Native: A Strategic Framework for Cross‑Platform Architecture Decisions Executive Summary In today's fragmented digital ecosystem, the promise of...

In December, we introduced Conductorhttps://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/conductor, an extension for the Gemini CLI designed to bring context‑driven develop...

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3759427.3760373 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311585 Points: 4 Comments: 0...

The Self‑Driving Codebase vs. “Kill the Code Review” I found these two articles very interesting: The Self‑Driving Codebase and How to Kill the Code Review. I...

In software engineering we often view upgrades as purely positive—new features, better performance, and patched vulnerabilities. When your project is used as a...

Background I was working at a company I really liked. I had great managers and a supportive team, enjoyed the work, and felt I grew quickly as an engineer. I s...

_This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challengehttps://dev.to/challenges/wecoded-2026: Echoes of Experience_ > Every time a recruiter or staffing agency re...

Functional vs. Imperative – A Scala Example This is a cleaned‑up version of the original markdown. The structure and content are unchanged; only formatting has...

In 2021, being a good software engineer felt great. The world was full of software, with more companies arriving every year who needed to employ engineers to wr...

Time zones are hard. As a well‑known Computerphile videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY so eloquently puts it: > What you learn after dealing with t...

What I Look for in a Pull Request Frontend Code Review > One of my strengths is spotting issues in others’ code 😜. Below is a checklist I use when reviewing a...

Personas are a valuable tool for discussing accessibility requirements in software design and development practices. However, the use of personas for accessibil...

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WebGIS development requires rigor, yet agentic AI frequently fails due to five large language model (LLM) limitations: context constraints, cross-session forget...

Large language model (LLM) coding agents can generate working code, but their solutions often accumulate complexity, duplication, and architectural debt. Human ...

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The Problem I built an “awesome” API with 12 parameters. It was garbage. Nobody could use it without a PhD in my brain. After years of backend development, I l...

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The Sequel Two weeks ago I shared that I built an AI product manager so I could stop being one. Original post Here's what happened since. Sales engineer drafts...

Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introductionhttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/agentic-e...

PMs shouldn’t waste time landing prod diffs at Meta scale - If the feature is actually important, fix the system for prioritization your real job rather than c...

Context. Technical Debt (TD) refers to short-term beneficial software solutions that impede future changes, making TD management essential. However, establishin...