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Some valuable lessons I’ve learned from a 10x programmer, years ago. #developers #programmers #lessons

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Top lessons learned from working with a 10x developer

Developers with 10 times the productivity

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Trying different approaches to vibe coding. None are quite as high quality as manual software development, but one comes close.

#SoftwareDevelopment #ArtificalIntelligence

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Agentic Assist vs Markdown Spec vs Spec Kit

An honest comparison of AI-assisted development approaches

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August 4, 2026 at 6:42 AM

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There’s exceptionally good and helpful bug reporting, and then there’s everything else. Accurate bug reports shouldn’t be the exception.

#SoftwareDevelopment #QualityAssurance #Bugs

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Write Bugs That Developers Will Appreciate

Tips for Developers, QA, PS and CX

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July 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM

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Rating software principles and patterns from skippable to essential.

#Rating #SoftwareEngineering #BestPractices

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Ranking Software Engineering Principles, Patterns, and Practices

Rating principles and patterns from skippable to essential

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July 11, 2026 at 4:47 AM

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The job search in 2026 is a different beast. You hindered by AI by default. Instead of AI working against you, try making it work for you.

#ArtificialIntelligence #JobSearch #Careers

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Job Hunting in 2026: AI Is Everywhere, and Mostly Working Against You

Here’s what’s broken, what surprisingly works, and how I built my own AI tools to fight back

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July 6, 2026 at 9:37 PM

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My thoughts on the Canada I will have to raise my daughter in, and the benefits of social democracy.

#Canada #cdnpoli

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Raising My Daughter In A Politically Fragmented Canada

It’s still the country I knew, the one I thought we’d grown from

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June 30, 2026 at 11:36 PM

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A simple but fair coding interview question for any skill level.

#CodingInterview #TechnicalQuestion #SoftwareEngineering

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The Interview Question That Told Us a Lot About Candidate Developers

It’s simple, fair and revealing

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May 29, 2026 at 4:14 PM

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Swift was a fun language to dive back into compared to C++ because it has all of the hallmarks of a modern language.

#swift #programming #SoftwareEngineering

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Diving Back into Swift Was a Breeze

After almost a decade of absence

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April 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM

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How Claude Code helped me modernize, unit test, and revive my 25-year-old legacy C++ code for a Swift project.

#Cpp #Swift #ClaudeCode #LegacyCode

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Can Claude Code Modernize My Legacy Codebase?

And repurpose this 25-year-old C++ code

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April 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM

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Confessions of a Workaholic Software Developer Pt. 2

“Just a few more years, and I’ll be where I want to be.”

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March 8, 2026 at 4:20 PM

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Setting up multiple providers for Agentic AI in XCode 26.3 (including locally hosted).

#AI #AgenticAI #XCode #SoftwareDevelopment

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Agentic Coding in XCode 26.3

And how to set up multiple providers and models

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March 4, 2026 at 5:53 PM

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It took years for me to trust AI for coding in production with a million+ lines C++ codebase (outside of Tab completion and unit tests). Here’s why.

#AI #AgenticAI #SoftwareDevelopment

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Claude Opus Changed My Mind About AI Coding

My dismissals were true until they weren’t

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March 4, 2026 at 4:46 PM

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Most of us have had that time when nobody in-house could reproduce an important customer bug.

#SoftwareEngineering #debugging

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The Unreproducible Bug

Why “it works on my machine” is a tempting cop out

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February 23, 2026 at 7:10 PM

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After surviving unscathed from 18 years, I’m now part of the recent big tech layoffs. Can’t be irreplaceable forever, ig.

#BigTechLayoffs #WorkforceReduction #WFR #SoftwareDevelopment

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Moving On From a Programming Job Was Always My Choice…Until Now!

It’s my turn after surviving tech job WFRs for 18 years.

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February 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM

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Staff Developer to full-time Dad, and back.

#Programmer #SoftwareDevelopment #PaternityLeave #Parent

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From Established Developer to Full-Time Dad and Back

An overdue journey and how I’ve managed

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February 3, 2026 at 2:50 AM

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Have you ever had a great job and watch it implode?

#SoftwareDevelopment #Career #DreamJob #Nightmare

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The Day My Dream Job Became a Nightmare

And has haunted me years after

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December 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM

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“If ‘agile’ were still a meaningful word, not a capitalist religion.”

#SoftwareDevelopment #agile #Productivity

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We Had No Issue Tracker

Each story was a sticky note. Each bug was an automated test.

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December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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From the “I did it the hard way, so everyone else is invalid” crowd. Break the cycle.

#SoftwareDevelopment #programming #elite #Gatekeepers

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Elitism in Software Development

11 things I’ve encountered, on one side of it or the other

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November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM

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Writing about software development has helped me understand it, and myself, a little better.

#softwaredevelopers #programmer #writing

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How Writing About Programming Has Changed Me

In good, bad, and unexpected ways

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November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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If I can only teach you one SOLID principle, it would be SRP…so long as you test.

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #TDD

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SOLID Skeptic? Learn SRP and Unit Testing

And other best practices will follow

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November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM

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An honest reflection on C++ from a polyglot developer.

#SoftwareDevelopment #cpp #programmer

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Going back to C++ was hard

I had to rediscover patience after using faster-paced languages

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November 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM

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Working late or extra has long been normalized in software development. How do you feel about work-life balance?

#programmer #SoftwareDevelopment #overtime #addiction

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Confessions of a Workaholic Software Developer

Dreams, deadlines and invisible overtime

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October 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM

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End-user test automation ensures your software behaves as designed. BDD focuses on clearly defining user scenarios of software behaviour so that it can be measured.

#Development #TestAutomation #BDD

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