I wrote a fiction series with [six characters](). Each one drinks a different coffee. I didn't plan it that way. But somewhere around the tenth story, I realized: what someone orders at the bar says more about them than anything they actually say. Here's the lineup: --- ### Lena — Long Black ☕ ...
Read articleI recently put out a video arguing that frontend development is changing. I don't think the work is going away. The frontend developer title is what's changing, and a lot of us are turning into full stack developers. The comments had opinions, so I recorded a follow-up. {% embed https://www.youtub...
Read article*Remember when using autocomplete meant you weren't "really" programming?*  *A real [Stack Overflow question](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/114520/is-it-wrong-or-ba...
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Read articleI applied for a Junior Solutions Engineer role today. Not a senior role. Not a staff role. Not some "10 years of experience required" fantasy posting. **A junior role.** The requirements were things like: - Hands-on experience in solutions engineering, technical support, sales engineering, or au...
Read articleI have a bookmark folder called `prompting`. Forty-one tabs in it. "The 12 prompts that 10x your engineering." "Context engineering for agents, explained." "The system prompt that changed how I ship." A course I finished at 1am, certain I'd finally cracked the thing — that if I just learned to *ask...
Read articleFeels like it's been more than a minute since my last post. A lot has happened in my life over the past weeks: I searched for a job, travelled to Portugal, got married and started a new job! Now that I am settling back into a routine, I am eager to start writing again. I have a long list of topics ...
Read articleLet me tell you about a project that wasn't impressive. Back in university, I built a small .NET application. I don't even remember all of what it did — some forms, some logic, a database behind it, nothing you'd put in a portfolio. By any technical measure it was tiny. A beginner's project. But I...
Read article--- I started last Monday. Today it's been exactly two weeks. Here's the funny part. I've spent 15 years in QA — manual testing, then automation, then test development, then test management. I've held just about every title this field has. And on day one, at a new desk, the feeling was as basic as...
Read articleI got the rejection email on a Tuesday. I've been rejected before — everyone has. This one broke something. > *"While your technical skills are strong, we felt your reliance on AI tools during the assessment didn't reflect the independent problem-solving we're looking for."* Rejected. For using AI...
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