Opinion

What's your next mountain?

Life is a hill-climbing algorithm

Why other people's code looks weird

Are you an organizer or a searcher? What about your team?

Try to work for a brand

Brand helps your career in subtle ways.

How defensive coding leads to bloat

Defensive coding is an important lesson and over time and engineers it leads to massive bloat, if you're not careful.

Your job as an engineer is to make yourself unnecessary

Why a coding AI like Github Copilot won't take your job

It might. What's your job? If you're in the *"write code to exact specifications"* business ... now's a good time to start leveling up. The AI's not ready yet.