#learning

Starting over isn’t failure—it’s a powerful development skill.

If you can make an unknown situation look like one you already know how to handle, you can apply a well-known solution.

Don’t be a backseat driver, trying to take over the PR through comments.

Here are my favorite technical questions to ask when interviewing software developers.

Challenge yourself to come up with at least three solutions to problems that you encounter.

A summary of my first year of blogging.

If you use AI to solve puzzles for you, you are kind of missing the point.

I rewrote my hobby project in Rust, but I didn’t really like it.

To build robust tests, each test should verify only what it needs.

Beginners use basic tools due to lack of skill, while advanced developers chose them because they know they’re often enough.

Sometimes when you make a change, it ends up changing you.

You may not end up where you expected, and you may be glad for it!

My thoughts after a first journey into the world of Go.

The best design does what it needs to, and no more.

Developers sometimes underestimate the importance of doing things just for fun.

Don’t use AI to write text for you, or you’ll lose the opportunity to sharpen your thinking.

Create a complete plan for the future, so you can build confidently today.

A deep dive into unit testing looking to answer why, how much, and what.

Generative AI is bad at coming up with novel ideas, but really good remixing existing.

Even though you feel completely confident, there is always a slight chance you are wrong.

The books that made me the programmer I am today.

Teaching is a great way to determine if you truly understand a subject.

Whenever you feel smart, take a step back and think about why.