Thirty years in, the JavaScript ecosystem would like to see other languages. They're younger, leaner and faster. What could possibly go wrong?

Some observations on the software engineer job search in 2026

How DoorDash built Flux, an in-house platform for cloud-based coding agents that automates engineering work at scale

on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate

Metaphors like "a sinking ship" are often used to describe codebases, but are misleading. A _business_ will sink long before code quality reaches a hypothetical floor. Technical debt has no…

Personal websites are attracting attention again as people rediscover the value of owning a domain, controlling their work, and building an Internet outside...

The AI labor market in September 2026 from LinkedIn, WEF, Stanford, PwC and Bain data: the most in-demand AI roles, salaries in the US and Europe, what grows and what fades.

Modern code is difficult to understand, perhaps more so than any time in the past. Popular modern coding practices have done away with…

A step-by-step guide to get started with Google ADK to build your first AI agent which does fact checking

Use Deep Research, Guided Learning, and Canvas features in Gemini for software engineering tasks for better productivity. You will be surprised how easy they are to use!

A practical retrospective on building and rolling out an internal company agent at Bold.org, from connectors and usage analytics to adoption, contributions and overbuilt evals.

Today, a single prompt turned 46 SWC issues into 45 pull requests. I do not know exactly how long it took. While the work was running, I was looking at my phone and playing games. By the time I checke

Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is...

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.

A library to verify email tokens from the Email Verification API - philnash/email-verification-api

Strategies and tactics to meet total strangers

Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s built with cofounder, Sualeh Asif

Learn how to upsert data in Postgres using the INSERT ON CONFLICT UPDATE clause with practical examples. Combine insert and update operations into one UPSERT.

Learn how to create and run Cloud Run Jobs on GCP to run tasks to completion on a schedule with Google Cloud Scheduler.

Database migration on a production database is never simple. You can run your alter statements with zero or minimal downtime following the steps mentioned below with a practical example.

Use SQL to do math like sum, average etc. Utilize it for grouping one to many relational values like getting categories of product. Leverage SQL for string manipulation like using CONCAT_WS for...

Using Jira does not make your software development process agile. Being agile is having an agile mindset and putting it into practice everyday.

Introduction It's crazy to me that some GitHub repos, that were just created in the last...

Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent. - Kilo-Org/kilocode

Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking. It's I/O.

Learn how to create a hair style changer app using Gemini 3 on Google AI Studio with this practical guide. Explore its features and find out how to build your own app.

A step-by-step guide to get started with Google ADK to build your first AI agent which does fact checking

Use Deep Research, Guided Learning, and Canvas features in Gemini for software engineering tasks for better productivity. You will be surprised how easy they are to use!

The synchronal bimodal nuclear rocket could slash travel time to Mars

Most “DynamoDB knowledge” online is too generic/too long to help.

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code.…

As AI shifts engineers from builders to reviewers, research shows the resulting burnout is about a changing identity, not workload.

About a year ago, I wrote a piece called Software Becomes Disposable, arguing that AI was fundamentally altering the half-life of our…

Use the /boost slash command in Google Antigravity to solve complex coding tasks, tricky bugs, and algorithmic problems through deep multi-agent reasoning loops.

Human context is small, and that shaped how we build software

Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems

Things are getting boring - using LLMs is making software development not fun anymore

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OpenRun adds built-in Litestream replication for SQLite apps, with automatic backup to S3-compatible storage and restore on Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes.

Harnesses manage the systems around agents, from the session, to the company, to the domain.

Charging per token is becoming the default for AI companies. For most AI applications, it is a mistake.

Scaling The core problem of scaling a team is that not everyone can know everything. Scaling is the work of systematizing that – so that things are understandable, knowable. It’s turnin…

Software engineering

Being laid off early in my career has made me reconsider where my skills fit in a software industry being reshaped by AI.

Do you know Git? Of course you do! Today, I’ve got a few of my favorite Git commands for...

101 things I have learned since 2007 about software engineering and web development from languges to testing and DevOps.

In this tutorial, learn how to add a React search bar to an existing app step-by-step.

In this tutorial, learn how to use Next.js with docker with a step-by-step example.

Learn how to enhance your CV, LinkedIn, and GitHub profile with Gemini 2.0, a new AI tool in real time.

Learn how to use controlled generation in Gemini over Vertex AI for the output to adhere to a given schema with a real life job listings example.