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  1. April 18, 2026·1 min readHow Software Engineers Should Manage Their Dotfiles

    If you’re a software engineer, you probably have a dozen dotfiles on your computer. These are user configuration files and are prefixed with a literal dot. If you still have no idea what I’m talking a…

  2. February 27, 2026·2 min readThe Death of the “No”: Why Developers Need to Be Questioned

    Modern LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT have transitioned from a novelty to an essential element of modern software development. We went from “Hey, ChatGPT is kinda cool” to “Hey Cursor, implement my enti…

  3. April 9, 2025·2 min readDemystifying SQL Joins

    There is nothing magical about table joins in SQL. It’s actually quite simple … Dataset We will be using two example tables throughout the article. The first table f1_team uses id as the primary key.…