🚀 From Procedural to Object‑Oriented Programming Most developers start by writing procedural code. It’s like a recipe: a list of instructions executed line‑by...

Grinding Go: Low‑Level Design I went back to the drawing board for interview preparation and to sharpen my problem‑solving skills. Software development is in a...

In September 2025, I sat down at a desk in Vancouver, opened a terminal, and started building ioZen. No dev team. No co‑founder writing code beside me. No Slack...

With the advent of AI, the software‑engineering job is evolving, but our responsibilities remain. Producing code is no longer the hardest or most valuable part...

Why AI Tools Aren’t a Silver Bullet Every other post on your feed is telling you AI tools are going to “revolutionize” your coding workflow. And they’re not wr...

Understanding Development vs. Production Environments I came across these terms while learning and thought I understood them. But I didn’t truly get them until...

The Zig programming language maintains an intentionally small standard library. Components that do not meet strict inclusion criteria are removed and relocated...

Tests Enforce Contracts Now right off the bat, you don’t want to get this wrong. When writing tests, the key thing to keep in mind is that we should treat what...

WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It a...

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Want cleaner, more expressive code? Programming Idioms is a massive collection of practical coding patterns translated across dozens of languages — from loops a...

Have you ever felt a pang of FOMO watching everyone jump on the latest JavaScript framework, AI tool, or cloud service—while you’re still shipping code with “bo...

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Study Overview Dave Farley recently shared results from a controlled study of 150 developers using AI tools. The data confirms a hard truth that the “vibe codi...

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The rapid adoption of AI-powered coding assistants is transforming software development practices, yet systematic comparisons of their effectiveness across diff...

Introduction I’m going to say the quiet part out loud: your app works. Your demo looks cool. Your code, however, is a nightmare waiting to happen. Before you g...

The future of building happens together Tools and trends evolve, but collaboration endures. With GitHub, developers, agents, and code come together on one plat...

Writing on software, systems, and hard-won lessons. Writing on developer experience, systems thinking, and the mistakes behind both — covering AI workflows, co...

Stop generating, start thinking by Sophie Koonin 8 February 2026 Tags: ai/tags/ai/, engineering/tags/engineering/ Throughout my career, I feel like I’ve done a...

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Ask a room full of developers what matters most, and you’ll hear the usual suspects: algorithms, system design, clean code, performance. All true. But there’s a...

AI is getting very good at writing code. It can scaffold systems, refactor modules, suggest fixes, and even explain stack traces. So it’s natural to ask: Will A...

I’ve been passionate about writing “Good Code™” since before I started my career, beginning way back when I was still a kid in middle school. What is “Good Code...

What is “Good Code™”? Good Code is code that is easy to read and understand. It is pleasing to develop with and maintain. It exists for a specific reason—and n...

Why I Write Games in C yes, C I am an unusual beast. All my solo project games I've been making recently have been written in vanilla C. Nobody does this, so I...

Why I Write Games in C yes, C I am an unusual beast. All my solo‑project games I've been making recently have been written in vanilla C. Nobody does this, so I...

I’ve been programming for 11 years. Mostly web but I touch backend, mobile, devops, AI and almost everything else you can imagine ; I still often feel like I kn...

🤔 Why Go Is Worth Learning in 2026 Go was designed for real‑world engineering problems, not academic perfection. That’s why companies love it: - Simple syntax...

Just kidding, it’s not my primary stack... yet. After delivering two successful projects with Laravel and having two more currently in production, the transitio...

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A 10 developer workflow is not about writing code ten times faster. It’s about: making better decisions earlier, automating execution safely, preserving intent,...

Systems will fail. People will make mistakes. Security isn’t about pretending otherwise. It’s about making sure failure is survivable. Good security design: - l...

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Adding code feels productive. Removing it feels risky. But complexity grows naturally. Simplicity has to be defended. Great engineers fight entropy by: - deleti...

A Tale of Curiosity, Incompetence, and Why You Should Never Trust a Software Engineer Who Makes More Than You It started, as most disasters do, with mild curio...

Frontend architecture in the age of AI Front‑end development has become increasingly complex. It must handle user requirements, enhancements, business domain l...

Different Perspectives on Software Quality The quality of software—or any product—can be viewed from multiple perspectives because various stakeholders bring t...

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There’s a growing sentiment that software engineers shouldn’t tie their identity too closely to their work. On the surface, that sounds healthy. But in practice...

Measuring developer productivity is a topic that has attracted attention from both academic research and industrial practice. In the age of AI coding assistants...

Introduction In the fast‑paced world of technology, the distance between a brilliant idea and a market‑ready product is often where most startups fail. At Frug...

We’ve been lied to. We were told that “seniority” is a function of time. We were told that mastering the next framework is the path to the top 1 %. But if that...

The Context Behind This I’ve been spending a lot of time learning and trying to grow as a developer. What I’ve been struggling with lately isn’t motivation or...

Introduction Sometimes a problem feels hard not because it’s unsolvable, but because we try to solve everything at once. A good system often works by splitting...

What Is Vibe Coding? Vibe coding is when you: - Copy code you don’t understand - Rely on AI or Stack Overflow as a crutch, not a tool - Skip reading documentat...

Programming Principles in the Age of AI: DRY This is the first article in a series of thought experiments where I revisit programming principles through the le...