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7 simple habits of the best engineers I know
How great software engineers maintain outperformance
Sep 11, 2023
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How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps
Oct 16, 2023
How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
Dec 4, 2023
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Sep 15, 2023
How to Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds)
Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
Sep 12 • Engineer's Codex
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast
Merkle Trees in the real world
May 10 • Engineer's Codex
Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
Mar 9 • Engineer's Codex
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About
Innovations outside the AI spotlight
Nov 12, 2024 • Engineer's Codex
How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer
How Fireship wins YouTube
Oct 9, 2024
The Boolean Trap
Use enums instead
Sep 5, 2024
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
Jul 8, 2024
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