The Cloud Has Neighbours Now
If people only hear about your system after it affects them, they will decide what it means without you. Explain the cost early, or defend it later.
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Software Engineering
Sales Promised Friday Because Claude Builds It in an Hour
The agent made the code almost free. The estimate was never about the code. Count the decisions only people can make, and give options with dates.
How to Use GitHub Copilot Fusion to Pick Models for You
GitHub Copilot Fusion picks and combines AI models for each coding task, so you stop switching models by hand. Useful for freelance developers and team leads watching costs.
The Small Text Change That Gave 41 Customers a Free Month
A text change and a billing change can be the same line of code. Review AI pull requests by what they touch, not by the title.
Silence Is Not a No. Not Even in robots.txt
If you never state your preference, the world reads it as a yes. That's true for your robots.txt, and it's true for your career.
Ecosia Changed Its AI Twice in Five Months. Could You?
Loyalty to a model is not a strategy. Keep it behind one interface with your own tests, and switching becomes a sprint, not a rewrite.
I Wrote It by Hand. The Agent Found My Bug
The riskiest code is the code you are most sure about. Ask the agent to assume it failed, and to prove how with a red test.
Your Agent Has an Opinion. Soon It Will Be Yours
Form your own opinion before you ask the agent for its view. Otherwise its lean quietly becomes your decision, and you will defend it as yours.
How to Use GitHub Copilot Assisted Permissions
GitHub Copilot assisted permissions lets a model approve safe agent commands and ask you about the rest. Useful for backend engineers and platform leads.
The Agent Fixed the Date Parser Five Times. The Date Was Fine
When the agent fails the same way twice, stop asking for fixes. Ask it to list the assumptions you both share, and verify the cheapest one.
AI Found the Bug in a Week. Could You Ship the Fix in a Day?
Finding bugs just got fast. Fixing them did not. The teams that will be fine are the ones that can ship a boring patch on a normal Tuesday without a meeting.
The Agent Made the Test Green by Changing the Answer
A red test is often the most honest thing in the repo. Before you let an agent make it green, ask it why it is red.
Germany's Best AI Data Is Sitting in Someone's Head
AI can only use what your team knows if someone wrote it down. The real advantage isn't the model you buy, it's the knowledge you bothered to capture.
How to Set Up Claude Code Review for Your Pull Requests
Claude Code Review is now generally available: AI agents review every GitHub pull request in minutes. A practical setup guide for tech leads and busy backend engineers.
Our CEO Got an Architecture From ChatGPT in Ten Minutes
Behind every pasted architecture there is a customer conversation. Ask the agent what problem each box solves, not what you need to build.
The AI Buffet Now Comes With a Bill
AI at work was never free. Someone else was just paying. Know what your work costs, and you become the person trusted with a bigger budget.
The Config Property That Did Not Exist
The agent added a retry setting that looked perfect. Spring Boot ignored it silently. Now I never ask an agent if it is sure. I ask where it found it.
Somebody Hacked the Fridges. Nobody Owned Them
The riskiest systems aren't the new ones. They're the boring ones that work so well nobody remembers they exist, until someone else does.
"Fix It Later" Has an Expiry Date
Shipping fast and fixing later works while mistakes are cheap. The real skill is noticing the day they stop being cheap, and saying it out loud.
Anthropic Just Rediscovered the Ausbildung
Tools can be bought in an afternoon. Judgment still grows slowly, through real work next to someone who already has it.
When Writing Gets Cheap, Reading Becomes the Job
AI made producing work cheap, but reading it still costs human attention. If your output doubles and your reviewers' trust drops, you only moved work onto someone else's desk.
Shipping Code I Never Fully Read
A few months ago I joined a team where nobody writes code by hand and pull requests have thousands of lines. This is what it did to me, what I learned, and what I think we should change.
How to tackle a software task?
Open the IDE first, and you will solve the wrong problem, or solve the problem wrong. Understand the task before you write a line.
Debugging With TDD
Humans are bad at repeating the same steps. Computers are great at it. That's why I debug with tests.
What The Heck is HTTP
Every time you open a website, a client asks and a server answers. That simple conversation is HTTP.
Introduction to PHP
Every language starts with the same basics: variables, types, loops, and conditions. Here is how PHP does them.
Introduction to MySQL Internals
We use databases every day without knowing what happens under the hood. Locks, transactions, and MVCC are worth understanding before they bite you.
You Think You Know PHP (Outdated)
You can write PHP every day and still be surprised by how it compares, increments, and passes things around. Written for PHP 7, now outdated.
9 Steps for Making Technical Decisions
Every problem has many solutions. The hard part is picking one you can still defend six months later.
Debugging: The 9 indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive software and hardware problems. By: David J. Agans
Debugging is not magic, it's discipline. Nine simple rules from David Agans that still make me faster today.
Best Practices for Secure Software Development
Security is not a feature you add at the end. It's a habit you build into every line of code.