The Laws That Quietly Govern Good Software (Part One)
"We'll clean it up later." — every engineering team, at some point In my last post, I wrote about the hidden complexity behind simple products . The s…
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How to Write a Career Change Resume That Actually Gets Interviews
A lot of people reading dev.to didn't start in software. Bootcamp grads, teachers, nurses, retail managers, marketers who taught themselves SQL. And p…
Why Your AI Resume Sounds Generic (And How to Fix It)
I'm Larbi, and I build Roleframe, an AI tool that tailors resumes to specific jobs. I spend a lot of time looking at what large language models (LLMs)…
The Real Cost of Late Client Payments (and How to Stop Absorbing It)
Late client payments don't just delay your money. They cost you real time, real cash flow, and real opportunities — and most freelancers never actuall…
Three failures I still think about
People sometimes ask where the discipline comes from — the three-line rule, the habit of trusting nothing except my own running code, the assumption t…
From Java Monoliths to LangGraph Agents: What Transfers
I spent ten years building enterprise Java systems — a payments monolith broken into Spring Cloud microservices, banking applications, and currently a…
I Ran an AMA on Dev.to. Here Are My Favorite Questions
This month, my personal blog turned 8 years old...and my dev.to account turned 7. To celebrate it, I ran [an AMA session: I've Spent 10+ Years in Soft…
Learning DevOps as a Computer Engineering Grad...
Late that night which was two weeks to my final year project defense, I stared at the ceiling thinking about life after school. As a Nigerian, the rea…
You're Not Blocked. Your Work Is.
What my grandfather understood about being indispensable Let me tell you about the most productive week of my career, during which I accomplished abso…
JWT vs Session Tokens | What’s the Difference and Which Should You Use?
JWT vs Session Tokens : The One Sentence That Actually Matters If you've built more than one web app, you've had this argument with a teammate: "just …
The First 90 Days of Learning IT
A realistic 12-week structure that turns enthusiasm into visible proof. The problem You are motivated now, but motivation fades, and without a structu…
Hello DEV — I’m Mahdi, a Full-Stack Engineer Building Reliable Systems and Open Tools
Hello DEV Community! I'm Mahdi, a senior full-stack engineer and international STEM educator. Over the past eight years, I've designed and shipped sof…
Feeling lost as a Software Engineer in the age of AI. What’s next?
Hey dev community 👋 I’m a web developer, and lately, I’ve been feeling a bit stuck on where my career is heading. Where I started vs. Where I am now B…
18 Stories, 6 Characters, 18 to Go — A Half-Time Check-In on the 36 Stratagems
I took a week off from Dev.to. Not a planned one — I just sat down last Sunday and realized I had nothing left. Eighteen stories into a 36-story serie…
I had a blog with no pipeline feeding it
Building in public is part of how this studio is supposed to work. It's in the go-to-market plan in plain language: don't buy attention, earn it by sh…
41 percent of engineers admit ignoring alerts and I found out I was one of them
Tuesday evening I counted something I had never counted before. The number of times my own tooling interrupted me in one working day. Not other people…
Why Andrés and I Started Developwave
I met Andrés at EAFIT, in a group project, and what stuck with me wasn't that he was smart — plenty of people in that program were smart. It was that …
Your Certificate Folder Is Not a Portfolio (Collect Evidence Instead)
Confession: I used to be a certificate collector. Course completed — screenshot. Webinar attended — badge. Another PDF into the folder called "Career"…
Anyone heard of Qoder?
With the release of Qwen 3.8 Max and it's insane 98% discount during 'off-peak' hours and 90% discount during regular hours, I decided to download Qod…
New Portfolio!
I've always loved tarot cards and readings and wanted to incorporate that aesthetic into my new portfolio. Every visual asset was designed by me in Af…
I'm Entering My First Sherlock Audit Contest: The Setup, the Plan, the Fear
I have shipped software for 18 years. Roughly 8 of those in crypto. And this week I signed up for my first Sherlock audit contest, and my hands were a…
The New Developer Portfolio Is Not a Screenshot. It Is the Work Trace.
AI makes it dangerously easy to look productive. A screenshot can look impressive. A demo can look polished. A generated article can read smoothly. A …
Just for Fun: Fear and Loathing in the Age of Coding Agents
There is a distinct, quiet disquiet settling over the software engineering landscape today. You can feel it in LinkedIn post threads, in hushed conver…
I'm new to "Dev.to"
Hello from Japan. I've been reading DEV for a while and finally decided to stop lurking. My career I've spent about 20 years as a software engineer in…
From machining to machine learning: an unconventional path into software
I was fifteen when I first stood in front of a CNC machine at Senai. Not a keyboard. Not a screen. A machine that cut metal down to the tenth of a mil…
Monte Carlo Simulation in Finance: From Random Walks to Option Pricing
Why Monte Carlo? Monte Carlo simulation is the Swiss Army knife of quantitative finance. When analytical solutions don't exist, we simulate: generate …
Building a Hiring Plan That Survives Budget Cuts
Most hiring plans are built during optimistic periods, growth is projected, budget is approved, and a headcount plan gets laid out for the year. The p…
I Hired Claude, But Slower and More Expensive
The comment landed on the pull request early afternoon, around 9 in the morning his time; we worked a few time zones apart. Four paragraphs defending …
Why Are Data Analysts in High Demand in 2026?
A Deep Look at the Career Powering the Data-Driven World Introduction: Data Is Everywhere—But Insight Is Rare In 2026, the collection of data no longe…
The Pentagon Called Anthropic a Security Risk: What It Means for AI in Regulated Industries
Something happened in 2026 that should be on every engineer's radar, especially if you work in finance, healthcare, government, or anywhere regulated.…