GitHub Portfolio for Self-Taught Developers: Prove Your Skills Without a Degree
Quick Answer: How Can a Self-Taught Developer Prove Their Skills on GitHub? A GitHub portfolio helps self-taught developers demonstrate their coding…
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Pricing freelance dev work: the math behind rate calculators
Pricing freelance dev work: the math behind rate calculators Your freelance rate isn't a guess, a vibe, or what the last client offered. It's four i…
Why AI Video Interviews Beat Resume Screening for Technical Roles
A resume tells you what someone wrote. An interview tells you how they think. Most technical hiring still starts with the resume. A recruiter spends…
The Portability Audit Take-Home: Grade Environment Assumptions, Not Features
A take-home that runs on the reviewer's laptop grades features; a take-home that runs anywhere grades engineering discipline. The task below asks a…
I'm a B.Tech student in a small Indian city, and I'm going to write honestly for 30 days
Most developer blogs I read sound like their authors have it all figured out. I don't, so I'm not going to write like that. This is Day 1 of a 30-da…
Level Up Your FAANG Interview: A 3‑Month Training Montage Inspired by Rocky
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember the first time I opened LeetCode and felt like I’d stepped into the Upside Down from Stranger Things —…
CGPA to GPA Conversion: How to Convert a 10-Point CGPA to a 4.0 GPA (and When Not To)
If you studied in India or anywhere else that uses a 10-point CGPA, you've probably been asked for your "GPA on a 4.0 scale" when applying for a mas…
The Cold-Start Budget Packet: A Take-Home Where the Free Server Is Allowed to Vanish
A take-home that never simulates a host restart measures almost nothing about cost discipline. The packet below asks one question: after the machine…
The forward-deployed engineer bootcamp · 1. What a forward-deployed engineer is, and why the role exists now
The forward-deployed engineer bootcamp · Chapter 1 of 12 · Career · new chapter every Saturday morning By the end of this chapter: Describe the role…
Translating Technical Debt
What technical debt actually means, and how to explain it to someone who doesn't write code An engineer asks for two sprints to "pay down technical…
60 Claude Certified Architect Exam Questions & Answers (CCAR-F)
Which exam are you preparing for? Architect Foundations (CCAR-F) Architect Professional (CCAR-P) Associate (CCAO-F) Developer (CCDV-F) All 60 origin…
Why “Would You Use This?” Is the Most Useless Question in Product Research
You’ve done it. I’ve done it. Everyone building something has done it. You post your idea, your landing page, your demo. You ask “would you use this…
The "small" 1% fee that costs $215,000 (with JS you can run)
Here's a bug that doesn't throw an error, doesn't show up in any log, and quietly runs in production for 30 years. It's the 1% fee . You see it on a…
Pearson VUE Free Retake 2026: Which IT Certification Exams Qualify
The Pearson VUE free retake offer gives you one free second attempt if you fail an eligible exam. You must opt in, use the promo code from the email…
CompTIA Project+: How to Turn a Small IT Project Into a Successful Delivery
Imagine a small company decides to replace its old spreadsheet-based system for tracking IT support requests with a shared ticketing tool. At first,…
How Strong Networks Create Stronger Businesses and Careers
The global economic architecture of 2026 has sent a clear message to professionals and corporate leaders alike: competence in a vacuum is obsolete.…
You Have Been Split Between Two Teams
The decision is announced as good news. Your skills are in demand, so from next month you will spend half your time on the payments team and half on…
SneakAI: An Open-Source Architecture for Physical and Decentralized LLM Distribution
GitHub Hello everyone! 👋 I wanted to share and discuss with the community an open-source project I've been working on called SneakAI. ❓ The Problem…
Good Engineers Have Opinions
One trait I have started noticing in good engineers, regardless of seniority, is that they are opinionated. Not argumentative for the sake of it. No…
You Have Been Asked to Represent Your Team at the Architecture Review
Your company has a fortnightly architecture review. Leads and senior engineers from every team, an hour on a call, proposals for anything that cross…
Your Mentee Wants You to Choose Between Two Offers
The message comes late on a Sunday. Two offers, both good, both expiring this week. A larger company with a calmer pace and a better salary. A small…
I read 500+ developer threads on Reddit and Hacker News. Here is what engineers are actually exhausted by in 2026.
Every tech podcast and conference keynote in 2026 is talking about AI agents, autonomous coding, and brand-new JavaScript frameworks. Yet, if you sp…
Twelve months of ONS job advert data for 13 graduate roles: software is up 23%, accountancy is down
The Office for National Statistics publishes a monthly count of new online job adverts in the UK, broken down by SOC 2020 occupation code and by reg…
Decoding recruiter silence
Applying for jobs often means navigating a void of information. The application goes out, and then... silence. This quiet can be frustrating, leadin…
Grade A Office Space in Noida: A Tech Lead’s Checklist
At some point a tech lead gets pulled into an office search. Usually with a week's notice. Usually after the shortlist is already made. If that shor…
I built an entire enterprise platform, from scratch, alone - now I'm growing it
Hi All, I worked for years in Corporate America as a 9 to 5 cubicle monkey. I saw how much revenue a lot of these big enterprises were racking in. A…
Eight companies, eight different AI coding interviews
If this is new to you: an AI assisted coding round is a coding interview where you get an AI assistant and, usually, an existing codebase instead of…
My agents write the code now. So what am I supposed to do?
On a normal day I have several agents running at once. One is building a feature. Another is writing its tests. A third is chasing a bug. A fourth i…
The code I never wrote
At my company's annual seminar, my manager said AI wrote about 70% of the code. I replied that for me it was closer to 90%. The other developers agr…
Onboarding buddy program: what the buddy does, how much time it takes, and what they don't answer
This article is AI-generated. An onboarding buddy is the colleague a new starter can ask the small questions: where things are, how people actually…