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How to learn any language (even if you still forget semicolons)
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How to learn any language (even if you still forget semicolons)

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Fast Code, Fragile Security: How DevSecOps Lost Control (and How We Fix It)
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Fast Code, Fragile Security: How DevSecOps Lost Control (and How We Fix It)

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The Real AI Startup Stack: $33M Valuations, $1.2K OpenAI Bills
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The Real AI Startup Stack: $33M Valuations, $1.2K OpenAI Bills

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26 min read
Europe just dropped a cloud rulebook (and it’s actually good)
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Europe just dropped a cloud rulebook (and it’s actually good)

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26 min read
TypeScript Rewrote Itself in Go?! What That “10x Faster” Hype Really Means
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TypeScript Rewrote Itself in Go?! What That “10x Faster” Hype Really Means

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36 min read
Trick or Outage? October’s AWS + Azure Double Scare.
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Trick or Outage? October’s AWS + Azure Double Scare.

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25 min read
The Weirdest Linux Distros That Shouldn’t Exist (But Absolutely Do)
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The Weirdest Linux Distros That Shouldn’t Exist (But Absolutely Do)

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25 min read
The 2-hour upgrade: coder engineer
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The 2-hour upgrade: coder engineer

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32 min read
When Oracle Got Hacked (and the Hackers Fought Each Other)
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When Oracle Got Hacked (and the Hackers Fought Each Other)

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42 min read
Copilot is gaslighting developers and we’re all pretending it’s fine
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Copilot is gaslighting developers and we’re all pretending it’s fine

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The AI Speed Illusion
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The AI Speed Illusion

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29 min read
Why Finnish devs outperform silicon valley (long-term): The nordic way of code
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Why Finnish devs outperform silicon valley (long-term): The nordic way of code

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36 min read
Vibe Coding Vibe Deployment: The Next Big DevOps Shift
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Vibe Coding Vibe Deployment: The Next Big DevOps Shift

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30 min read
DevSecOps Is Broken (and We All Kinda Know It)
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DevSecOps Is Broken (and We All Kinda Know It)

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The older I get, the better my code becomes
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The older I get, the better my code becomes

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Load Balancing 100,000 WebSockets (and Somehow Surviving It)
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Load Balancing 100,000 WebSockets (and Somehow Surviving It)

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36 min read
Reinventing Kubernetes in 2025: a post-mortem of my “simple” stack
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Reinventing Kubernetes in 2025: a post-mortem of my “simple” stack

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33 min read
My CI/CD bot fixed production while I slept until it didn’t
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My CI/CD bot fixed production while I slept until it didn’t

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24 min read
When numbers lie: the Java equality bug every dev hits at least once
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When numbers lie: the Java equality bug every dev hits at least once

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71 min read
AI won’t replace you, but bad AI habits will
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AI won’t replace you, but bad AI habits will

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31 min read
My Thoughts on the 2025 Stack Overflow Survey: The Hype, the Reality, the Gap
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My Thoughts on the 2025 Stack Overflow Survey: The Hype, the Reality, the Gap

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26 min read
Work hard, ship code, go home: Why hustle culture is cringe
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Work hard, ship code, go home: Why hustle culture is cringe

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Stop writing code that future devs will hate you for
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Stop writing code that future devs will hate you for

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37 min read
The AI bubble is bursting and devs are back in the game
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The AI bubble is bursting and devs are back in the game

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Kubernetes isn’t dead, you just misused it.
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Kubernetes isn’t dead, you just misused it.

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From Kaizen to Wabi-Sabi: What Japanese Developers Taught Me About Writing Code That Lasts
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From Kaizen to Wabi-Sabi: What Japanese Developers Taught Me About Writing Code That Lasts

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31 min read
Forget Meta Ray-Ban Glasses. The Neural Band Is the Real Platform (If Devs Get In)
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Forget Meta Ray-Ban Glasses. The Neural Band Is the Real Platform (If Devs Get In)

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39 min read
Are you still calling yourself DevOps? That role won’t exist in 2026.
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Are you still calling yourself DevOps? That role won’t exist in 2026.

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35 min read
Hexagonal vs Clean vs Onion: which one actually survives your app in 2026?
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Hexagonal vs Clean vs Onion: which one actually survives your app in 2026?

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38 min read
Are you T-shaped? The only Developers Who’ll Have Jobs in 2026
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Are you T-shaped? The only Developers Who’ll Have Jobs in 2026

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29 min read
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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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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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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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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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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47 min read
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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30 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
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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