Retry in Distributed Systems — How Production Systems Recover From Temporary Failures
Not every failure is permanent. This is something I didn't think about before. When something fails in my app, my first thought was something broke, f…
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Don't Fear the Road
An essay faith4future There's a fear going around among faithful people, and I don't think it's silly. It goes something like this: this AI thing is d…
Which sentence on your SaaS homepage is hardest to write?
For founders and indie developers: which sentence on your current homepage is hardest to write? Paste the public sentence, target customer, and desire…
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…
How We Sourced a 12-Part Tech Investigation So Every Claim Survives a Hostile Fact-Check
I just shipped a 12-part video series on cloud economics - depreciation schedules, lock-in, licensing disputes, bundling cases. The kind of material w…
Developer vs Engineer : How I Stopped a Memory Problem by Thinking Differently
The main difference between a developer and an engineer is not just the code they write. It's how they think about building a system. How they optimiz…
I Built a Publishing Tool Because I Was Too Lazy to Write
I wanted to start a blog. I had a niche, I had opinions, and I genuinely wanted to write. But every time I sat down to publish something, I hit the sa…
Frequency Bias in LLM Coding Assistants: Fairness Risks for Software Development.
Thinking about how AI coding assistants shape developer choices, and the hidden biases influencing programming decisions. >_< cross-posted from …
The Seven Cycles of a Life — And How to Show Up in Each One
I've been writing a book about compression. The core idea is simple: understanding something means compressing it — distilling its essential structure…
Stop Typos in Your Browser IDE: The Best Spell Checker for VS Code Web Environments
I'll be honest—I didn't think I needed a spell checker in VS Code until I pushed a commit with "recieved" in a variable name. My team noticed. I learn…
How To Write A Post Mortem Report Without Blame Language
I'll never forget my first post-mortem meeting. I was a junior engineer, and the server had crashed at 3 AM during a holiday sale. The report started …
How Writing Can Help You Escape AI Delirium
Like most developers, I've been using one of Claude Code, Cursor or Codex for over 2 years now, and I don't remember the last time I manually wrote a …
The Last Mile of Software Is a Sentence
Every developer knows the quiet satisfaction of a clean merge, a green test suite, and a system that does precisely what it was designed to do. Far fe…
Every Medium Publication That Accepts 3D Content (2026 Map)
If you create 3D content — printing guides, WebGL tutorials, Three.js projects, CAD workflows — and want to publish on Medium, you have a discovery pr…
How Tall Tales Got Designed (in Letters)
In January 2002 I dropped an envelope in the mail addressed to my brother Steve. Even in 2002, mailing a letter to a sibling was unusual — but these w…
Is it common to crave for a Super Accessible ASI without giving up Human Creativity?
Am I one of the rare developers who: Secretly wants AI to finally succeed doing all the things AI CEOs continuously promise AI will be able to do, but…
Keyboard shortcuts that fixed my editing flow
I used to lose my train of thought every time I reached for the mouse to translate or fix a sentence. It sounds minor, but when you're writing in a se…
My Struggles as a Software Engineer in 2026
This post is adapted from my YouTube vlog, " My Struggles as a Software Engineer in 2026! " I started my journey to become a software engineer two yea…
What I learned testing AI text detectors in 2026 (they still get it wrong)
If you build anything that touches user generated text, sooner or later someone asks: can we just detect the AI written stuff and filter it out? I spe…
Quantitative Content Methodology: 5-Layer Content Framework
Quantitative Content Methodology (QCM) treats content not as mere text, but as a mathematical dataset optimized for search engines and LLMs. In this g…
Is Writing a tech blog still worth it ???
Hi DEV Community! 👋 I'm an undergraduate who is currently stepping into the tech industry. Writing has always been one of my favorite hobbies, and for…
Two majors, one README, one demo: two cheap design reviews
Writing the docs is what surfaced both mistakes. There’s a meta-lesson in there about how docs are the cheapest design review you can run, but that’s …
From Rot to Rhythm: How We Rebuilt Our Documentation Culture with Docusaurus
The Forgotten Layer Every infrastructure has a critical layer that doesn't show up on dashboards, but without it, everything slows down: documentation…
A Practical AI Voice Workflow for Creator Tools and Product Demos
AI voice tools are easy to test in a casual way: paste a few lines, pick a voice, export an audio file, and decide whether it sounds good enough. That…
Community as Infrastructure
If you're alone , plugging away at a keyboard with no one to share your concepts with, you've got an infrastructure problem. Here's the great news, in…
My Journey to Becoming a "Trusted Member" on DEV
Achieving Trusted Member status on DEV Community is a meaningful milestone for any tech writer. This role unlocks moderation powers aimed at keeping o…
What I Learned From Writing 50 Articles in a Row
Writing 50 articles in a row sounds impressive when you say it out loud. In reality, it looks less glamorous than people imagine. It means waking up w…
Hello, world
I learned most of what I know from people who had no reason to share it but did anyway. A blog post from some engineer explaining exactly the bug I'd …
Why Every Developer Should Write: The Skill That Quietly Changes Everything
I did not plan to become someone who writes. I was just trying to survive as a developer. There were days when nothing made sense. Errors that felt pe…
How to Start Technical Writing as a Developer: A Practical Guide to Sharing What You Know
I did not start writing because I loved writing. I started because I was stuck. There was a bug I could not solve. I spent hours searching, reading ha…