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While My Friends Were Playing Games, I Was Pressing BREAK
How a curious kid with a ZX Spectrum became an engineer who builds AI from scratch When I was a kid in the early '90s, every boy in my class dreamed a…
The Data Engineer Roadmap for 2026 (in an AI-Native World)
This is the narrated version of our free, interactive Data Engineer Roadmap . Same areas, same order, with a focus on the one thing each layer asks of…
Cognitive Debt: The Hidden Cost of Letting AI Write Your Code
In early 2026, Anthropic researchers ran an experiment with 52 junior developers. Half used an AI assistant to learn an unfamiliar Python library. The…
6 ATS failures I found after submitting 20 resumes (free checklist)
Applied to 20 roles last month. Silence. Not even rejections. I spent a weekend going through every resume I submitted and found the same six failures…
Passkeys: Enterprise Adaptation and Individual Use Cases
Lately, I've started seeing the "Sign in with Passkey" option on many platforms. Initially, like with any new technology, I approached it with some di…
RTO vs RPO vs MTTR vs MTBF: the Security+ metrics people mix up, and how to keep them straight
You get a scenario question on the SY0-701. A company's database can lose at most 15 minutes of transactions, and it has to be back online within 2 ho…
Where have the bottlenecks gone?
AI coding, using AntiGravity or Claude Code, has significantly increased the productivity of your junior developers. Applications which used to be ‘lo…
I built a free AI job search that ranks real listings by your resume fit
I'm a test automation engineer with ~12 years in Java/Selenium/Playwright. Last year I went back on the job market — and I was reminded how genuinely …
The contractor economy: why startups hire specialists before full-time teams
The contractor economy: why startups hire specialists before full-time teams Startups used to follow a familiar hiring pattern: raise money, build a c…
Define the state of our agent
Meta: Learn how to eliminate LLM hallucinations in career coaching apps using Agentic Workflows and RAG, as seen in the architecture of CVChatly. The …
Flutter Interview Questions Every Developer Gets Asked (2026 Edition)
I've interviewed at 6+ Flutter companies over the past year and noticed the same questions keep coming up — regardless of the company size or role lev…
The Jedi Mind Trick: How One Resume Line Turned My Job Hunt Into a Victory Lap
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Honestly, I felt like I was stuck in the opening scene of The Matrix —surrounded by green code that made zero sense, exce…
DevOps Salaries & Hiring in India 2026: What 800+ Live Job Listings Reveal
If you're a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud engineer in India — or hiring one — the market in 2026 looks very different from a few years ago. Instead of guessin…
Cogs and Sparks: Who Wins When Machines Learn to Speak Human
Disclosure: this article was written from my own thesis and lived experience, then shaped and edited with AI assistance. I reviewed the argument, revi…
this is scary (day 0 of learning data engineering)
apparently i need to build in public and create a personal brand to get a job, which tbh is a big big ask from little introvert me, who would rather g…
Top 12 SQL Interview Problems for Data Engineers, With Answers
I've been on both sides of the SQL interview table somewhere around 20 times in a single job search. The pattern is always the same: candidates know S…
Nobody teaches you how to think like a senior engineer
Nobody teaches you how to think like a senior engineer because the people who can teach it are too busy doing it. They review your PR and leave one co…
Engineering Resilience: Two Lessons from Building Under Pressure
A reflection on performance optimization at scale and building reliability mechanisms; two tasks that defined my internship. Every engineering interns…
The Most Expensive Bug in Software Development Is Poor Communication
When people talk about expensive software bugs, they usually mention security breaches. Or outages. Or deployment failures. Those certainly cost money…
How I Fixed Bugs in 30+ Open Source Projects (And What I Learned)
How I Fixed Bugs in 30+ Open Source Projects (And What I Learned) Over the past few months, I've been contributing to open source as an independent de…
Live coding lost its signal. Here's how interview prep splits by company size in 2026.
Live coding stopped telling interviewers what it used to, and most candidates haven't updated their prep. The round didn't get easier. The signal got …
Create content about 'productivity' on Dev.to (avg 330 engagement)
The Developer's Guide to Sustainable Productivity: Tools, Techniques, and Mental Models The Developer's Guide to Sustainable Productivity: Tools, Tech…
You Are Not Being Rejected. You Are Invisible.
I place developers with US tech companies for a living. Before that sentence makes you close the tab: this article contains the things I tell develope…
Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object
When I attend tech conferences, people usually know me — if they do — for my work on Cilium and my labs. That started changing recently. At the last t…
AI doesn't make you a generalist. It makes you a nobody.
Everyone is cheering that AI turns you into a "full-stack everything." But no one is questioning what it means when all of us are full-stack everythin…
Free AI CV Builders in Germany 2026: ATS-Ready, GDPR-Safe, No Login Needed
I have been testing free AI CV tools for three months. Most articles recommend the same five tools. Almost none of them mention the two problems that …
Vanity of vanities — on AI slop and the problem of content for content's sake
3,000 years ago, Qoheleth surveyed everything done under the sun and called it vanity. Not pride — emptiness. The striving after wind. Labor that prod…
Fixing Bugs Is Easy. Preventing Their Return Is Hard
Most developers celebrate when they identify the root cause of a bug. The debugger finally reveals the problem. The fix is coded. Tests pass. A pull r…
I Lead AI Agents Every Day - Here Are 5 Shifts No Standard Tells You How to Make
A Google DeepMind safety lead said this week that they're putting $10M behind multi-agent safety because "there just isn't really a field of research …