Career & Culture
The Minimum Senior Developer Skillset in 2026
What does senior actually mean when AI handles the mechanical parts of coding? The bar has not lowered - it has shifted. Here is what matters now.
What actually matters when building real software systems
Engineering Craft
What a Good Pull Request Looks Like in the AI Era
AI tools change how code is written. They do not change what makes a pull request good. But they do change the failure modes - and what reviewers need to watch for.
Career & Culture
From Coder to AI Architect: The Real Role Transformation
The developer role is shifting from writing code to directing systems that write code. What that transformation looks like in practice, and what it takes to make it well.
AI & Machine Learning
AI Wrote 60% of the Code. What Does a Developer Do Now?
GitHub says AI is writing nearly half of all code on the platform. As that number climbs, the developer role is not disappearing - it is shifting to things AI cannot do.
Engineering Craft
Technical Debt: How to Measure It and How to Argue for Fixing It
What technical debt actually is, how to distinguish debt worth paying from debt worth ignoring, and how to make the case for cleanup work to a non-technical stakeholder.
Software Architecture
Monolith vs Microservices: The Honest Tradeoffs
What microservices actually cost, what problems they actually solve, and how to think about the decision instead of treating it as a default choice.
Observability
Debugging in Production: Where to Start
A systematic approach to finding the root cause of production issues - how to use logs, metrics, and traces together, and the mental models that turn panic into process.
Engineering Craft
How to Do a Code Review (and How to Receive One)
A code review is not a gatekeeping exercise. Here is what makes them useful - from both sides of the diff.
Performance
Caching Strategies: Where to Cache and What to Invalidate
Caches speed things up until they serve stale data. Understanding the tradeoffs at each caching layer - and how invalidation actually works - is what keeps them from becoming bugs.
Computer Science
Processes, Threads, and Coroutines: What They Are and When to Use Each
The concrete differences between processes, threads, and coroutines at the OS level, and how to choose the right concurrency model for the problem in front of you.
Computer Science
How Memory Works: Stack, Heap, and Why It Matters
What the stack and heap actually are, how memory allocation works at the hardware level, and why understanding this makes you a better programmer in any language.
Software Architecture
Why System Design Is More Important Than Ever
When AI can write the code, the decisions that matter most are the ones that happen before the code is written. System design was always important. Now it is the primary leverage point.