50 articles on JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, databases, data formats and the tools developers use every day.
An honest assessment of AI coding tools — the tasks they are genuinely good at, the failure modes to expect, and a review checklist for generated code.
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How context windows work, what tokens actually cost, the lost-in-the-middle effect, and practical strategies for fitting a real codebase into one.
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Which computer-science fundamentals genuinely pay off in application work — complexity, data structures, concurrency and naming — and which are safely skippable.
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Practical productivity practices for engineers — protecting deep work, reducing context switches, and automating the decisions that do not deserve thought.
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A working set of shell commands for developers — searching, processing text, inspecting processes and diagnosing a server — with the flags that matter.
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The prompting techniques that measurably improve results for coding tasks — context, specificity, examples and verification — without the mysticism.
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Multi-cursor editing, the command palette, workspace settings and debugging — the VS Code features worth learning properly rather than the extension lists.
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A lookup table for Git recovery — uncommitting, unstaging, recovering deleted branches, fixing the wrong branch, and why reflog makes almost everything reversible.
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A practical GitHub Actions setup for a Node project — caching, concurrency cancellation, matrix builds, and the permissions and secrets mistakes to avoid.
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