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Octarine finally made kubernetes feel sane now here’s what I want in 2.0

Octarine finally made kubernetes feel sane now here’s what I want in 2.0

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The 5 personalities of a tech lead which one keeps you alive (and which one burns you out)?

The 5 personalities of a tech lead which one keeps you alive (and which one burns you out)?

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You’re learning wrong (and that’s why you’re stuck as a mid dev)

You’re learning wrong (and that’s why you’re stuck as a mid dev)

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Octarine finally made kubernetes feel sane now here’s what I want in 2.0

Octarine finally made kubernetes feel sane now here’s what I want in 2.0

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Ship code without even reading it?

Ship code without even reading it?

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28 min read
Programming in 2030: will devs still code, or just babysit AI?

Programming in 2030: will devs still code, or just babysit AI?

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AI just killed the coding interview: Why LeetCode won’t get you hired anymore

AI just killed the coding interview: Why LeetCode won’t get you hired anymore

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Web dev in 2026 will be chaos. Master these 50 skills or get left behind.

Web dev in 2026 will be chaos. Master these 50 skills or get left behind.

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Recruiters aren’t clicking your portfolio…they’re looking here instead.

Recruiters aren’t clicking your portfolio…they’re looking here instead.

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38 min read
12 habits that secretly turn average devs into 10x engineers (no, not ChatGPT)

12 habits that secretly turn average devs into 10x engineers (no, not ChatGPT)

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Ship code without even reading it?

Ship code without even reading it?

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DeepSeek V3.1 vs GPT-5: 685B Parameters, 128K Context, 68 Cheaper

DeepSeek V3.1 vs GPT-5: 685B Parameters, 128K Context, 68 Cheaper

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Web dev in 2026 will be chaos. Master these 50 skills or get left behind.

Web dev in 2026 will be chaos. Master these 50 skills or get left behind.

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99% of us use ChatGPT wrong. The AI slop is our fault, I fixed it (and you can too).

99% of us use ChatGPT wrong. The AI slop is our fault, I fixed it (and you can too).

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Recruiters aren’t clicking your portfolio…they’re looking here instead.

Recruiters aren’t clicking your portfolio…they’re looking here instead.

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38 min read
The Great Developer Split: How Juniors, Mid-Levels, and Seniors All Got Screwed.

The Great Developer Split: How Juniors, Mid-Levels, and Seniors All Got Screwed.

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Zero-touch Firebase SDKs with one command and CI magic

Zero-touch Firebase SDKs with one command and CI magic

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Scale out or scale up? The 5-minute decision every dev faces

Scale out or scale up? The 5-minute decision every dev faces

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Reverse proxy vs load balancer: stop mixing them up (before prod takes the hit)

Reverse proxy vs load balancer: stop mixing them up (before prod takes the hit)

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Compose, Swarm, or K8s? a brutally honest decision guide

Compose, Swarm, or K8s? a brutally honest decision guide

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Your app isn’t IPv6-ready: a 30-minute checklist

Your app isn’t IPv6-ready: a 30-minute checklist

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JSONB vs JSON: the Postgres/MySQL showdown that actually matters

JSONB vs JSON: the Postgres/MySQL showdown that actually matters

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Stop saying “C is always faster”

Stop saying “C is always faster”

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PyTorch vs TensorFlow 2025: Which one wins after 72 hours?

PyTorch vs TensorFlow 2025: Which one wins after 72 hours?

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Europe’s AI hunger games: the grid decides who gets GPUs

Europe’s AI hunger games: the grid decides who gets GPUs

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Nvidia’s nvl72 is insane but who can actually use it?

Nvidia’s nvl72 is insane but who can actually use it?

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The EU just rolled out the AI Office. Your AI product is now on its compliance radar.

The EU just rolled out the AI Office. Your AI product is now on its compliance radar.

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Concurrency vs parallelism stop mixing them up, it’s embarrassing

Concurrency vs parallelism stop mixing them up, it’s embarrassing

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Java’s not dead, but it’s definitely been zombified

Java’s not dead, but it’s definitely been zombified

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SQL was fine… until it wasn’t. Why we went NoSQL and never looked back

SQL was fine… until it wasn’t. Why we went NoSQL and never looked back

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Postgres for everything? not really..and here are some of the problems.

Postgres for everything? not really..and here are some of the problems.

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GPT-5 has changed everything… Here’s everything you need to know about.

GPT-5 has changed everything… Here’s everything you need to know about.

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From prompt to physics: Google’s Genie 3 just changed AI gaming forever

From prompt to physics: Google’s Genie 3 just changed AI gaming forever

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25 chunking tricks for RAG that devs actually use

25 chunking tricks for RAG that devs actually use

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54 min read
The first open AI coder that rivals Claude is here

The first open AI coder that rivals Claude is here

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How I’d scale a side project to 1 million users (without melting my server)

How I’d scale a side project to 1 million users (without melting my server)

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Git rebase isn’t scary. You just never had it explained right

Git rebase isn’t scary. You just never had it explained right

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Next.js 16: The real dirt behind the hype

Next.js 16: The real dirt behind the hype

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You don’t need 20 tools. Just use Postgres (seriously!)

You don’t need 20 tools. Just use Postgres (seriously!)

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Automate like a boss: how I used n8n, Docker, and AI to build my lazy dev stack

Automate like a boss: how I used n8n, Docker, and AI to build my lazy dev stack

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The SharePoint exploit that breached U.S. Nuke Systems (and why devs should care)

The SharePoint exploit that breached U.S. Nuke Systems (and why devs should care)

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7 open-source MCP servers that make AI agents actually learn stuff

7 open-source MCP servers that make AI agents actually learn stuff

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This embedded database runs SQL on dataframes meet DuckDB

This embedded database runs SQL on dataframes meet DuckDB

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The death of cloud centralization: Last decade’s internet had a gravity problem

The death of cloud centralization: Last decade’s internet had a gravity problem

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Keep your system healthy with 20 cron jobs every DevOps engineer needs.

Keep your system healthy with 20 cron jobs every DevOps engineer needs.

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So… you wanna build with LLMs?

So… you wanna build with LLMs?

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How to stop sounding like a junior dev during stand-up

How to stop sounding like a junior dev during stand-up

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Developer ego that ended up in burning the business and 10 years in jail.

Developer ego that ended up in burning the business and 10 years in jail.

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The AI Ethics Toolkit for Developers

The AI Ethics Toolkit for Developers

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AWS, Azure, Vercel?! What actually worked for me during hosting my last five projects

AWS, Azure, Vercel?! What actually worked for me during hosting my last five projects

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AWS, Azure, Vercel?! What actually worked for me during hosting my last five projects

AWS, Azure, Vercel?! What actually worked for me during hosting my last five projects

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Top code editors: How have they evolved, and which are the best ones now?

Top code editors: How have they evolved, and which are the best ones now?

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The solo dev SaaS stack powering $10K/month Micro-SaaS tools in 2025

The solo dev SaaS stack powering $10K/month Micro-SaaS tools in 2025

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Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi? The DevOps tooling stack that didn’t burn me out

Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi? The DevOps tooling stack that didn’t burn me out

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Python, JavaScript, TypeScript? My no-BS guide to picking a language that lasts

Python, JavaScript, TypeScript? My no-BS guide to picking a language that lasts

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Skipping AI Ethics results: Deepfakes, Nudes, Scams, Bands, & Scandals.

Skipping AI Ethics results: Deepfakes, Nudes, Scams, Bands, & Scandals.

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WordPress, Ghost, Hugo? The great CMS war

WordPress, Ghost, Hugo? The great CMS war

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GPT-5 is coming here’s everything leaking before the launch

GPT-5 is coming here’s everything leaking before the launch

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Zig, Rust, Go?! I tried 3 low-level languages and here’s what I’m sticking with

Zig, Rust, Go?! I tried 3 low-level languages and here’s what I’m sticking with

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Obsidian, Notion, Logseq?! The note-taking stack that doesn’t suck for devs

Obsidian, Notion, Logseq?! The note-taking stack that doesn’t suck for devs

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