Did the recruiter open my application? What a read receipt can and cannot tell you
Applying for a job is one of the few situations where you send something important and get nothing back at all. Not a rejection, not a delay, not an a…
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Six articles, 200 views. So I read the feed's source code.
Six articles in two months. About 200 views. Total. Here is the full table, because a postmortem without numbers is just a mood: # Article Views React…
Ebook Reviewer Wanted: Help Me Find What's Gone Stale
Technical books have a shelf life that nobody prints on the cover. A cookbook from 2018 still works. A history book from 2018 still works. A Laravel b…
Mass-Producing Long-Form X Articles With a 5% Human Check: Only the 9/10s Get Through
If you let AI write your posts, what you get is an endless stream of articles that look fine but leave nothing behind once you've finished reading. Th…
AI is reducing quality
Once upon a time in 2018 I posted a few of my written articles to Reddit and got some replies where I was accused of "posting low quality responses wi…
Teaching AI to write less like AI
I use AI to write. And I'm not ashamed of that. The ideas are mine. The structure is mine. The experience that makes a technical article worth reading…
Stop Fixing Your AI Writing Prompt. Make These 5 Decisions First
I used to fix weak AI drafts by asking for better prose. "Make it clearer." "Make it more persuasive." "Make it sound less generic." The output improv…
Why AI Still Can't Write Well and Which Half of That Problem Is Actually Yours
I built a 36-pattern checklist to catch AI writing tells in my own drafts, calibrated against everything I've published. So when a theory about why AI…
I built a browser-based Markdown Previewer with KaTeX, Mermaid and PDF export
Hey everyone, I've been building Run It Free — a collection of privacy-focused online tools. One tool I recently launched is a Markdown Previewer desi…
Someone asked me if I knew of an alternative project management tool, so I developed one in about 24 hours.
AI is transforming the way we develop software. In the past, creating specific software required an entire team and months of work; AI has accelerated…
Hideo Kojima Predicted the AI Crisis in 2001 and We Weren't Paying Attention
⚠️ Spoiler warning: this post spoils significant plot points from Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3, and 5. If you haven't played them and plan to, bookmark th…
Why I Redesigned StrictBlock to Make Focus Feel Easier
I rebuilt StrictBlock (my app) from the ground up. StrictBlock is an iPhone app blocker and focus app designed to help people stop procrastinating, pr…
Building a Conceptual Framework in Public
Most conceptual frameworks begin as rough ideas. They are not born as complete systems. They evolve through observation, experimentation, revision, an…
Why I Publish Research in Public
Many research projects begin in private. Notes remain on personal computers. Drafts stay hidden. Ideas circulate only among a small number of people. …
Taste, Craft, or Something More?
The bottleneck has shifted. For most of human history, the challenge was producing things. If you wanted a painting, someone had to spend weeks painti…
How I built Enkrateia: an AI platform that generates complete books and evolved into a social system
I’ve been working on a project called Enkrateia, an AI-powered platform designed to generate complete books from structured user inputs. The idea is s…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Where to Syndicate Your Technical Blog Posts to Reach Developers in 2026 (What Actually Works)
If you're running a company blog and writing solid technical content, you've probably hit this problem: You publish a great post… …and almost no one s…
35 ChatGPT Prompts for Technical Writers: API Docs, User Guides, and Release Notes Done Faster
Technical writers live at the intersection of complexity and clarity. You translate engineering specs, API references, developer guides, and internal …