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AI buzzwords are everywhere. Terms are thrown around in dialogue that feel like they've existed for decades but have only emerged in the past year or......
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I recently read a blog post lauding the experience of using Claude Code for Web. Specifically there was quote in the post that goes as follows: I’ve......
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I constantly encourage my teams to leverage Generative AI (GenAI) in their daily work. It's a powerful way to offload manual toil, allowing them to......
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I have been self-hosting a fleet of Minecraft servers on and off since around 2022. Through the process, I've been able to build and maintain a broad......
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This year, with the buzz of GenAI's burgeoning capabilities as a pair programmer looming large over my industry, I took the opportunity to find out......
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Editor's note · June 2026 The GitHub developer API link in this post has been updated to its current canonical URL. The standalone......
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Think back to the last time you checked the tracking information for a package you were expecting to receive. You might have followed a link in your......
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One of the most common tropes of working as a software engineer I've noticed is the constant lambasting of old code. Anything older than a few years......
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Editor's note · May 2026 When this post was written the site ran on Gatsby. The site has since been rebuilt on 11ty (Eleventy) with Tailwind......
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Editor's note · June 2026 All of the GitHub help links in this post have been updated to their current canonical URLs. GitHub retired the......
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Editor's note · June 2026 The GitHub help link in this post has been updated to its current canonical URL. GitHub retired the help.github.com......
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As software engineers, there are lots of tools available for us to use. We might start simple with a programming language or two. From there, we might......
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In a previous post about continuous integration and deployment, I alluded to the practice of constantly putting code through various tests and making......
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Editor's note · June 2026 Two external references in this post have been refreshed: the Stack Overflow 2018 Developer Survey citation in the......
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Editor's note · June 2026 The Travis CI links in this post (travis-ci.com and travis-ci.com/getting_started) are preserved as the canonical......
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Callbacks vs Promises vs Async/Await JavaScript and many other programming languages support an abstraction known as asynchronous execution. What this......
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Disclaimer: This article is aimed at beginners to software development or those looking to enhance their personal project experience. I do a lot of......
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