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An Essay on Burnout

I denied burnout as a concept, until life decided to teach me the hard way. So here I am, burnt out. How did I get there?

How to get into programming in 2023

It’s 2023 already, you’ve been a responsible individual and created a new year’s resolution. One of the items in your resolution is a career change to become a software engineer. So how do you start?

The missing ingredients from your monitoring alerts

There is one thing engineers hate the most—waking up at night and troubleshooting production incidents. What if I told you I know how to make it less painful?

Legacy is where companies go to die

Legacy. The one word engineers cringe when they hear. Nobody wants to work with legacy code or legacy systems. And yet someone has to. Can we do something about it?

It's better to be (type)safe than sorry

Take a good look at the following function and try to understand what it's doing. function do_magic(a, b) { return a + b; }

The Software Industry is Broken

It's that time again. You come to your Toyota dealership to buy a new Toyota Corolla. You've been waiting to upgrade your old, fuel inefficient and slow model, with this year's new model. But the new model is more fuel inefficient! Wait! What?!