Articles: 129
10 Sep 2025, 15:43
Technology
Steve McConnell, author of Code Complete, shares timeless lessons from his classic software engineering handbook, what he's updated since, and the career principles every engineer should know.
09 Sep 2025, 15:23
A broad and deep dive in how Google works, from the perspective of SWEs and eng managers. What makes Google special from an engineering point of view, engineering roles, compensation, and more
04 Sep 2025, 16:36
Also: Google lawsuit win, OpenAI buys two startups, LLMs deleting stuff in prod, and more
02 Sep 2025, 16:35
A deepdive into today's tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more
28 Aug 2025, 16:11
Also: ChatGPT is potentially more efficient than 95% of in-house GenAI projects, Google cuts TLM positions, and more.
26 Aug 2025, 16:33
In-person algorithmic interviews are not disappearing from Big Tech and many top scaleups and startups, so it's useful to know how to succeed at them. Advice and tactics from Mike Mroczka
21 Aug 2025, 16:45
Also: Microsoft's US compensation bands leaked, Tailwind CSS team gets burnt using Claude Code, Meta and OpenAI in talent & comp war, and more
19 Aug 2025, 15:51
Which tools do software engineers use for project management, communication and collaboration, databases and backend infrastructure? Reader survey with analysis, based on 3,000+ responses
14 Aug 2025, 16:31
Also: Figma's in-demand IPO could mark the end of the "tech IPO winter", Amazon's spec-driven development approach with Kiro, and more
12 Aug 2025, 15:25
Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so popular in 2025
06 Aug 2025, 17:15
How are VC funding, hiring, and founder trends shifting—and what does it mean for software engineers at startups? Extensive data discussed with Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta.
29 Jul 2025, 15:02
A guide to creating SDKs that devs – and LLMs – will find a breeze to use, plus an overview of modern approaches for building and maintaining SDKs. By veteran SDK engineer, Quentin Pradet
24 Jul 2025, 16:59
Also: mystery solved about dozens of outages on 10 June, reflections on a year at OpenAI, and more
23 Jul 2025, 17:53
Laura Tacho, CTO of DX, shares findings from 180+ companies on how AI is really impacting dev productivity, what most teams get wrong, and why measuring dev experience first is critical.
22 Jul 2025, 16:13
What are the lessons of large outages at Heroku, Google Cloud, and Neon? Plus, how responses to outages can be as informative as incidents themselves…
17 Jul 2025, 16:29
Also: the complicated story of the Windsurf sale, beginning of the end for VC-subsidized tokens, and more.
16 Jul 2025, 17:34
Steve Yegge shares why Google struggles with platforms, how AI coding is deceptively hard, and why the "AI Fixer" role could be one spreading inside tech companies, in the future.
15 Jul 2025, 16:30
Which tools do software engineers use for backend development, frontend, infrastructure, AI tooling, and more, today? Reader survey, with feedback and analysis, based on 3,000+ responses
10 Jul 2025, 16:49
Breathing space: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is delayed for five years. Also: why Meta is "going to war" to poach AI researchers from OpenAI, and more.
09 Jul 2025, 18:44
Former Amazon Principal Engineer Steve Huynh shares what it takes to reach the Principal level, why the jump Principal is so tough at Amazon, and how Amazon's scale and culture shaped his career.
08 Jul 2025, 17:04
Helpful software engineering, AI engineering, and robotics fundamentals to know for getting into robotics. Also: advice about studying this exciting discipline at university
03 Jul 2025, 18:20
A software engineer worked at several AI startups at the same time, without his employers knowing anything about it. Then one frustrated founder who hired him went public…
02 Jul 2025, 15:45
Shopify's Head of Engineering, Farhan Thawar, shares how the company is using internal LLMs, unlimited AI tokens, and custom tooling to figure out how to use AI tools more efficiently - faster
01 Jul 2025, 15:07
How are devs at AI startups and in Big Tech using AI tools, and what do they think of them? A broad overview of the state of play in tooling, with Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and others
24 Jun 2025, 12:30
How to think about today's AI tools, approaches that work well, and concerns about using them for development. Guest post by Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
19 Jun 2025, 16:28
Also: Shopify celebrates engineers who spend the most AI tokens, too much AI usage could lead to cognitive decline, and more.
18 Jun 2025, 16:21
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shares how the company evolved from a Rails monolith, embraced remote work and junior hiring, and how AI tools like Copilot are reshaping software development.
17 Jun 2025, 21:51
Building skills useful entrepreneurs, while also shipping more, and helping your career inside a tech company. A guest post by Chaitali Narla.
12 Jun 2025, 16:39
Building a system where hundreds of devs simulate being an AI would have been silly in 2024. Also: stock vesting changes at NVIDIA and Anthropic, a reminder on how vibe-coded apps are wonky, and more
11 Jun 2025, 16:10
Kent Beck—creator of Extreme Programming and co-author of the Agile Manifesto—reflects on decades of coding, from the birth of TDD to his experiments with AI tools shaping software's future.
10 Jun 2025, 17:01
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
05 Jun 2025, 16:39
Also: new trend of higher base salaries for AI engineers than software engineers, Morgan Stanley shows AI is helpful for rewriting legacy codebases, and more.
