Social Media Engineers
The Rise of Social Media Engineers: When Your Follower Count trumps Your Git Commits Let’s be real for a second. We’ve all seen them in ...
Finding a Rails Job in 2025
A modern tale of software engineer finds work by jumping through flaming hoops
Are we in the age of What and not How? – Die Anzeige des Fortschritts
With AI the old saying „ideas mean nothing“ gets fractures. You can enter text and it creates…a new text, voice, an image, a 3D model and more.
The Invisible Difference
The unspoken side of work. How presence, tone, and trust shape how others experience you, whether you notice it or not.
10 product growth lessons from 4M users
Building 4 growth teams, scaling to 4 million users, and running 100s of experiments.
V8 Explicit Compile Hints with Magic Comments
While following Chrome platform status, I found an interesting feature that will be shipped in Chrome M136 and V8 v13.6.
An Appeal to Documentation Owners
If you have documentation for your library/SW/service, please, please ensure there is an option to show the whole documentation in a form I can print. That could be:
The Ultimate PoE-Powered SBC Setup - bret.dk
When you have 70+ SBCs, you need The Ultimate PoE-powered SBC Setup to manage them! Spoiler alert: Don't do this at home.
80/20 writing
A popular approach to running is the 80/20 philosophy, popularised by Matt Fitzgerald. It says that runners improve most effectively when 80% of their running is at low intensity, with the remaining 20% done at higher intensity. This approach recognises the va…
My Cowboy Classic E-Bike Review After 3.000 KM – Mert Bulan
Commuting around Hamburg for almost 3 years with the Cowboy Classic e-bike.
Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
Google announced that end-to-end encryption would be coming to Gmail. What a sweet day! Finally Google does something good. Is it a new protocol to
A cookieless, cache-friendly image proxy in Laravel (inspired by Cloudflare) - Aaron Francis
Transforming and serving images from Laravel in a cache-friendly way.
Nix derivations by hand, without guessing
I went on a little low-level Nix adventure yesterday and early this morning because of this excellent blog post. In it, Farid builds up the simplest possible Nix derivation—making a file that has the contents “hello world”. Here’s what I like about it:
I Need your Help to Improve Money Formatting on the Internet
Money formatting depends on locale. There is a good dataset for that. It's not perfect, and not everyone uses it. Please help with both.
How to Implement Spline Fitting
I specialize on complex problems in Software Engineering. It’s not that I enjoy complexity - it’s just that I can handle it.
Homelabs: How to start one | Nirmal Khedkar
Blog by Nirmal Khedkar
Growing systems towards DDD, Event-Sourcing and Event-Driven architecture
This blog explores how software systems can grow from simple MVC Applications, toward Domain-driven Design, Event-Sourcing, and Event-Driven, in an increme...
AI on Windows: Chat Styling - Nick's .NET Travels
In the past three posts about working with AI on Windows, we covered connecting to Phi Silica, getting progress response, and building a chat experience. In this post we’re going to improve the styling of the chat by using data templates and including a system…
Sharing Your Details Quickly At A Conference - M.O.W.
A post covering: careers, community, conference, connecting with people, dorset, job search, meetup, new job, relationships, tech, women in tech... When you are at a tech meetup or conference, it is always awkward when you want to connect with another attendee…
The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
Is something I think about often because I can’t help but wonder if most other jobs are like this.
The ADHD Body Double: A Unique Tool for Getting Things Done - ADDA - Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Body doubling is a productivity technique where an individual works on their tasks alongside someone else. Find out how ADHDers can use this strategy to their advantage.
The Wizard and His Shell
The shell was once powerful magic. Now it’s holding us back.
Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
A deep dive into Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel architecture, tracing its evolution from Mach and BSD roots to powering macOS, iOS, and Apple Silicon. This post explores the hybrid kernel’s design, its adaptation to new hardware and security paradigms, and w…
Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
When the story of how I landed a job at Airbnb went viral, I was surprised at how infatuated people were with my negotiations. Media stories portrayed me as some kind of master negotiator—a wily ex...
Create Your First Custom Control in .NET MAUI – Step by Step!
Get a subscription and improve your career: https://courses.devs.school Article Link: https://www.telerik.com/blogs/bindable-properties-controltemplates-net-maui 🎯 In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a custom control in .NET MAUI using Bindable Pro…
AI on Windows: Chat with Phi Silica - Nick's .NET Travels
In the past two posts we covered connecting to Phi Silica and then getting progress response to provide a more real time experience. The next step is to improve the layout of the application to display the prior message history. In this post we’ll cover updati…
What's it? - Word Unscrambling Game
Unscramble hidden words in daily grid puzzles based on fun categories!
Dangerous advice for software engineers
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