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.

Why going solo isn't always the best path to achieving your goals, and how an accountability buddy can double your success rate.

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AI generates code faster than we can review it, creating a hidden debt in our understanding of the system we build.

Tulisan ini bukan tentang film Merantau). Melainkan sebuah uneg-uneg yang terpendam sejak lama di lubuk hati yang paling dalam. Diawali karena melihat beberapa tweet

Tulisan ini dibuat untuk berpartisipasi di tweet oleh Kiki, yang mengajak untuk berbagi pengalaman menghadapi Quarter Life Crisis (QLC), sambil menyelam minum air, aku tulis jadi blog post aja deh