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Honest career advice for new software engineers from an engineering manager: what college misses, how to grow, and why business sense matters.

The difference between dependencies, devDependencies, and peerDependencies in a package.json, and when to use each type in a Node.js project.

Part one of 'CSS: The Important Stuff'. How content, padding, border, and margin actually lay out every element on a web page.

Why saying 'no' as a default to feature requests protects your product, your team, and your users from the lifecycle that kills most software.

React performance from the ground up. How the reconciler works, when re-renders hurt, and the tools (memo, key, useMemo) for fixing jank.

The albums and songs that shaped a decade of my life. Heavy on post-rock, math-rock, and odd time signatures.

Reflections on Johann Hari's Lost Connections: the nine social and cultural disconnections he argues are fueling modern depression and anxiety.

How Facebook hides the word 'Sponsored' from ad blockers using per-character spans and DOM obfuscation, pulled apart piece by piece.

Writing cleaner code: name variables well, pick good function signatures, and leave behind code your future self can read without cursing.

Keyboard shortcuts for moving around the terminal faster: cursor movement, history search, line editing, and process control.