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The fake GitHub economy no one talks about: Stars, Followers, and $5k Accounts.
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The fake GitHub economy no one talks about: Stars, Followers, and $5k Accounts.

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28 min read
15 rust tools to level up your Linux terminal
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15 rust tools to level up your Linux terminal

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55 min read
Pods aren’t just containers: deep Kubernetes tricks every DevOps should know
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Pods aren’t just containers: deep Kubernetes tricks every DevOps should know

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27 min read
The only “Cheat Code” that actually makes you a better developer
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The only “Cheat Code” that actually makes you a better developer

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40 min read
From Panic to Pull Request: The Developer’s Confidence Changelog
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From Panic to Pull Request: The Developer’s Confidence Changelog

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32 min read
The smartest devs i know obsess over a skill most engineers ignore
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The smartest devs i know obsess over a skill most engineers ignore

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31 min read
Kafka’s creators just replaced it should you burn your cluster or wait it out?
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Kafka’s creators just replaced it should you burn your cluster or wait it out?

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35 min read
Software dev isn’t life or death (but it sure feels like it)
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Software dev isn’t life or death (but it sure feels like it)

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26 min read
The AI terminal wars: why Warp is beating Claude, Gemini, and Goose
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The AI terminal wars: why Warp is beating Claude, Gemini, and Goose

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26 min read
We Pushed Go, Rust, and Node to One Million Users, Here’s Who Broke First
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We Pushed Go, Rust, and Node to One Million Users, Here’s Who Broke First

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32 min read
The Postgres vs MySQL Myth: Two Gods, One Eternal Curse
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The Postgres vs MySQL Myth: Two Gods, One Eternal Curse

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45 min read
When one senior dev quit, it cost us $120k and nearly broke the team
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When one senior dev quit, it cost us $120k and nearly broke the team

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35 min read
Why TypeScript’s Type vs Interface War Never Ends (and What It Says About Dev Culture)
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Why TypeScript’s Type vs Interface War Never Ends (and What It Says About Dev Culture)

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50 min read
Fortran’s unlikely comeback from programming’s past to powering AI and HPC
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Fortran’s unlikely comeback from programming’s past to powering AI and HPC

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35 min read
I rage quit my second brain and it actually made me a better developer
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I rage quit my second brain and it actually made me a better developer

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33 min read
Microservices are dead? why devs are rage-quitting the hype and going back to monoliths
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Microservices are dead? why devs are rage-quitting the hype and going back to monoliths

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30 min read
Octarine finally made kubernetes feel sane now here’s what I want in 2.0
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Octarine finally made kubernetes feel sane now here’s what I want in 2.0

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40 min read
The 5 personalities of a tech lead which one keeps you alive (and which one burns you out)?
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The 5 personalities of a tech lead which one keeps you alive (and which one burns you out)?

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40 min read
You’re learning wrong (and that’s why you’re stuck as a mid dev)
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You’re learning wrong (and that’s why you’re stuck as a mid dev)

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33 min read
Octarine finally made kubernetes feel sane now here’s what I want in 2.0
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Octarine finally made kubernetes feel sane now here’s what I want in 2.0

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40 min read
Ship code without even reading it?
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Ship code without even reading it?

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28 min read
Programming in 2030: will devs still code, or just babysit AI?
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Programming in 2030: will devs still code, or just babysit AI?

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AI just killed the coding interview: Why LeetCode won’t get you hired anymore
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AI just killed the coding interview: Why LeetCode won’t get you hired anymore

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33 min read
Web dev in 2026 will be chaos. Master these 50 skills or get left behind.
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Web dev in 2026 will be chaos. Master these 50 skills or get left behind.

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47 min read
Recruiters aren’t clicking your portfolio…they’re looking here instead.
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Recruiters aren’t clicking your portfolio…they’re looking here instead.

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38 min read
12 habits that secretly turn average devs into 10x engineers (no, not ChatGPT)
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12 habits that secretly turn average devs into 10x engineers (no, not ChatGPT)

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Ship code without even reading it?
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Ship code without even reading it?

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29 min read
DeepSeek V3.1 vs GPT-5: 685B Parameters, 128K Context, 68 Cheaper
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DeepSeek V3.1 vs GPT-5: 685B Parameters, 128K Context, 68 Cheaper

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Web dev in 2026 will be chaos. Master these 50 skills or get left behind.
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Web dev in 2026 will be chaos. Master these 50 skills or get left behind.

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47 min read
99% of us use ChatGPT wrong. The AI slop is our fault, I fixed it (and you can too).
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99% of us use ChatGPT wrong. The AI slop is our fault, I fixed it (and you can too).

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48 min read
Recruiters aren’t clicking your portfolio…they’re looking here instead.
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Recruiters aren’t clicking your portfolio…they’re looking here instead.

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38 min read
The Great Developer Split: How Juniors, Mid-Levels, and Seniors All Got Screwed.
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The Great Developer Split: How Juniors, Mid-Levels, and Seniors All Got Screwed.

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42 min read
Zero-touch Firebase SDKs with one command and CI magic
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Zero-touch Firebase SDKs with one command and CI magic

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41 min read
Scale out or scale up? The 5-minute decision every dev faces
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Scale out or scale up? The 5-minute decision every dev faces

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35 min read
Reverse proxy vs load balancer: stop mixing them up (before prod takes the hit)
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Reverse proxy vs load balancer: stop mixing them up (before prod takes the hit)

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42 min read
Compose, Swarm, or K8s? a brutally honest decision guide
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Compose, Swarm, or K8s? a brutally honest decision guide

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34 min read
Your app isn’t IPv6-ready: a 30-minute checklist
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Your app isn’t IPv6-ready: a 30-minute checklist

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40 min read
JSONB vs JSON: the Postgres/MySQL showdown that actually matters
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JSONB vs JSON: the Postgres/MySQL showdown that actually matters

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42 min read
Stop saying “C is always faster”
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Stop saying “C is always faster”

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44 min read
PyTorch vs TensorFlow 2025: Which one wins after 72 hours?
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PyTorch vs TensorFlow 2025: Which one wins after 72 hours?

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33 min read
Europe’s AI hunger games: the grid decides who gets GPUs
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Europe’s AI hunger games: the grid decides who gets GPUs

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32 min read
Nvidia’s nvl72 is insane but who can actually use it?
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Nvidia’s nvl72 is insane but who can actually use it?

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31 min read
The EU just rolled out the AI Office. Your AI product is now on its compliance radar.
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The EU just rolled out the AI Office. Your AI product is now on its compliance radar.

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40 min read
Concurrency vs parallelism stop mixing them up, it’s embarrassing
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Concurrency vs parallelism stop mixing them up, it’s embarrassing

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35 min read
Java’s not dead, but it’s definitely been zombified
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Java’s not dead, but it’s definitely been zombified

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31 min read
SQL was fine… until it wasn’t. Why we went NoSQL and never looked back
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SQL was fine… until it wasn’t. Why we went NoSQL and never looked back

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Postgres for everything? not really..and here are some of the problems.
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Postgres for everything? not really..and here are some of the problems.

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65 min read
GPT-5 has changed everything… Here’s everything you need to know about.
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GPT-5 has changed everything… Here’s everything you need to know about.

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45 min read
From prompt to physics: Google’s Genie 3 just changed AI gaming forever
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From prompt to physics: Google’s Genie 3 just changed AI gaming forever

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47 min read
25 chunking tricks for RAG that devs actually use
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25 chunking tricks for RAG that devs actually use

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54 min read
The first open AI coder that rivals Claude is here
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The first open AI coder that rivals Claude is here

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52 min read
How I’d scale a side project to 1 million users (without melting my server)
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How I’d scale a side project to 1 million users (without melting my server)

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24 min read
Git rebase isn’t scary. You just never had it explained right
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Git rebase isn’t scary. You just never had it explained right

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47 min read
Next.js 16: The real dirt behind the hype
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Next.js 16: The real dirt behind the hype

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You don’t need 20 tools. Just use Postgres (seriously!)
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You don’t need 20 tools. Just use Postgres (seriously!)

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Automate like a boss: how I used n8n, Docker, and AI to build my lazy dev stack
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Automate like a boss: how I used n8n, Docker, and AI to build my lazy dev stack

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31 min read
The SharePoint exploit that breached U.S. Nuke Systems (and why devs should care)
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The SharePoint exploit that breached U.S. Nuke Systems (and why devs should care)

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54 min read
7 open-source MCP servers that make AI agents actually learn stuff
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7 open-source MCP servers that make AI agents actually learn stuff

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24 min read
This embedded database runs SQL on dataframes meet DuckDB
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This embedded database runs SQL on dataframes meet DuckDB

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28 min read
The death of cloud centralization: Last decade’s internet had a gravity problem
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The death of cloud centralization: Last decade’s internet had a gravity problem

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