Sometimes the fastest way to fix a bug is to stop fixing it and fix your tools instead. A lesson on sharpening the saw.

Go 1.26 ships with compiler optimizations that move more slice allocations from the heap to the stack. Your existing code gets faster without a refactor.

I published a blog post every day in February. Some were good, some were filler, and I learned more about my own writing habits than I expected.

Most codebases rot over time. Compound engineering is the idea that every unit of work should make the next one easier, not harder.

One scp command to copy some files, and suddenly you can't SSH into your own server anymore.

I used to dismiss AI coding agents as expensive autocomplete. Then Opus 4.5 dropped, and a data scientist started shipping Rust crates that beat numpy. A breakdown of Max Woolf's journey and why the AGENTS.md file might be the most underrated tool in the…

Forced ranking systems pit teammates against each other and reward politics over performance. The math doesn't even work.

Large Language Models seem like magic, but they are just math. Let's break down Andrej Karpathy's MicroGPT to understand the core mechanics.

Writing code got easy. Knowing what to build didn't.

Promotion systems in tech reward complexity, not good judgment. Here's why that keeps happening and what you can do about it.

On the 'less is more' mindset in software engineering, and why deleting old code is some of the most satisfying work you can do.

I turned my GitHub starred repos into a searchable page on my blog. Here's what worked, what didn't, and why I gave up on SSR.

Caddy doesn't ship with Brotli support out of the box. Here's how I added it with xcaddy and a custom Docker build.

Why the fear of looking stupid is the enemy of doing interesting things.

JavaScript's Date object was a copy of Java's broken java.util.Date, and we've been stuck with it for 30 years. The Temporal API is here to replace it.