A developer shares personal experience with burnout and offers advice on maintaining work-life balance and mental health in the tech industry.
Dan Abramov argues against being a 'clean code zealot', stating it's a tool for managing complexity, not an end goal.
A developer shares personal health habits to illustrate how making good choices easy can be applied to building performant, accessible, and secure software.
A GitHub product lead shares resolutions for supporting open source communities, focusing on shared responsibility and maintainer etiquette.
Discusses essential but often overlooked developer skills like command-line proficiency, shell utilities, automation, and cross-functional understanding for career success.
A programmer reflects on a decade of experience, sharing highly opinionated insights on object-oriented programming and software design paradigms.
Monica Powell discusses her journey into tech, including landing her first engineering role, organizing meetups, and contributing to open-source on the Egghead podcast.
Explains the key differences between a library and a framework in software development, using examples like jQuery and VueJS.
An analysis of why the SaaS 'College Conductor' failed after three years, detailing the technical and business lessons learned.
Advice on convincing engineering teams to adopt observability practices, debunking myths and offering practical strategies.
Final 2019 episode of Red Dog for Dev, reviewing top Azure developer features and tools from the year.
A critique of modern Agile scaling frameworks, arguing for simpler, more effective software development practices based on core principles.
A software developer shares their personal experience with remote work, debunking common myths and explaining their flexible office routine.
Explores why developers overcomplicate software and proposes deliberate side-projects as a solution to balance innovation with practical technology choices.
A new comic strip series, 'The OmniDevs,' launches, humorously tackling the common developer struggle of estimating work.
Exploring the role of a senior developer beyond coding, focusing on impact, mentorship, and business context.
Argues that overly clever code is harmful in production environments, using Project Euler examples to contrast with maintainable code.
A response to criticism of Friday software deployments, arguing that a healthy, low-risk deploy ecosystem is better for engineers than blanket bans.
A developer discusses challenging management's demand for 100% test coverage, arguing it leads to meaningless tests and suggesting direct communication as a solution.
A tech founder explains the most common, non-personal reasons candidates aren't hired, focusing on startup hiring realities like role scarcity and team fit.
