Friday Links: PHP turning 30, reading code, and passion
15 Aug 2025 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. One senior developer failed at a live coding interview session. Funny enough, once the interview was over, he solved the exercise. Arrggg! He wrote a breakdown of why live coding sucks (9min).
#2. Here are 50 bits of career advice (12min). Bit#26 is what I call “my code is not my baby.”
#3. It’s interesting to notice how coding has changed over the years. Coding a spellchecker used to be a huge challenge (3min). These days we have plenty of memory, we don’t really care anymore.
#4. This is a coder vs huge corporation story. He wrote a piece of code that a major AI corporation uses. But they rejected him when he applied to work there. He gave AI arms and legs, then it rejected him (7min).
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about the one lesson I wish I’d known when I started coding (2min) and some C# extension methods I stole from Reddit (3min).
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See you next time,
Cesar
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