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2025

2025-04-17 12 Hard Truths About Coding I Learned the Hard Way After 10 Years
2025-04-11 Where to Start Your Coding Career: Corporate, Tech, or Agency?
2025-04-03 Why You Should Change Jobs—According to Jesus
2025-03-29 My Worst Interviews and the Lesson They Taught Me
2025-03-28 The Not-an-Architect Effect
2025-03-22 Is Burnout Inevitable in the World of Tech?
2025-03-19 9 Subjects I've Changed My Mind About as a Software Engineer
2025-03-18 A Day in the Life of a Random C# Backend Engineer
2025-03-14 How to Know When It's Time to Leave a Job
2025-03-08 10 Tips Every New Coder Should Know to Succeed
2025-03-04 10 Career Lessons I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before
2025-03-03 To Work From Home, You Need Clear Boundaries Between Work and Non-Work
2025-02-26 10 Ways to Stand Out at Work—Other than Work Hard
2025-02-18 Being Helpful Isn't Always Good Advice, Try This Instead
2025-02-08 Often You Don't Want It, but You Become a Leader—By Omission
2025-02-04 How I Made Money Coding and How I'd Do It If I Had to Start Again
2025-02-03 How to Land a Coding Job in Post-Pandemic Times—The Untraditional Way
2025-01-30 Dear Junior Coders: Stop Chasing Shiny Objects
2025-01-21 AI Is The Future And We, Coders, Have To Adapt
2025-01-15 There's Nothing Wrong With Coding Just to Pay the Bills
2025-01-14 Five Eye-Opening Lessons I Learned from Being Fired from My First Job
2025-01-10 If You Enjoy Coding, Think Twice About Joining the Management Track
2025-01-08 As a Team Leader, You're Not the Best Coder Anymore

2024

2024-12-05 How a Layoff Feels—And How to Prepare for the Next One
2024-12-04 If You're Looking for Red Flags Once You're in a Job, It's Too Late
2024-12-01 Who Gets Promoted Higher and Faster at Work?
2024-11-26 Did You Have a Mentor, and Did It Help You?
2024-11-17 The Best Time To Look for a New Job
2024-11-15 Learn To Talk to Non-Tech People in Your Team
2024-10-21 14 Quick Career Lessons After 10+ Years (and Lots of Trial and Error) as a Software Engineer
2024-10-14 Learning a Second Language Could Be Your Best Career Decision — Start With These 7 Steps
2024-10-07 I Hope You Don't Have To Write a CV. But if You Do, Follow These Tips
2024-09-02 What My First Job as a Software Engineer Taught Me About Coding and Life
2024-06-24 New Developers Looking for a Mentor: Here's a (Free) Mentorship Session in 8 Lessons
2024-04-29 AI Won't Take Our Coding Jobs Yet. But The World Will Need Different Coders
2024-02-05 This Project Taught Me More About Leadership Than Programming: Two Postmortem Lessons

2023

2023-09-04 A business case against massive unrequested refactorings
2023-08-21 There's No Such Thing as Job Security: Three Lessons on Layoffs
2023-07-18 Five years ago, I wrote my first blog post

2022

2022-12-19 Lessons I learned as a code reviewer
2022-12-18 Lessons I learned from my ex-coworkers about software engineering
2022-12-17 Three Postmortem Lessons From a "Failed" Project
2022-12-12 Four Lessons I Wished I Knew Before Becoming a Software Engineer

2021

2021-11-22 Want to ace your next take-home coding exercises? Follow these 13 short tips

2020

2020-09-19 In case of emergency, break the glass. Three debugging tips
2020-08-08 Ten lessons learned after one year of remote work
2020-07-20 Programming Time Capsule
2020-07-18 How I started blogging and why you should start too

2019

2019-09-29 Remote interview: Here I go (interview types and tips)
2019-08-19 Five lessons after five years as a software developer