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• Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
• The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem
• The Other Kind of Staff Software Engineer
• Changing Tires at 100mph: A Guide to Zero Downtime Migrations
• Writing code is one thing, learning to be a software engineer is another
• Writing for engineers
• Inside the longest Atlassian outage of all time
• RFC 9225: Software defects considered harmful
• Please put units in names
• Migrations done well: Executing migrations
• How to design better APIs
• Benefits of simple software architectures
• The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job
• Practical guide to solving hard problems
• Where did 80 characters in terminal come from
• The cost of a byte
• What's in a good error message?
• There’s no such thing as clean code
• GPS
• Programming in 1987 versus today