Engineer’s Codex

How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast

Merkle Trees in the real world

May 10 • 

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March 2025

Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect

Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures

Mar 9 • 

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36

November 2024

5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About

Innovations outside the AI spotlight

Nov 12, 2024 • 

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October 2024

How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer

How Fireship wins YouTube

Oct 9, 2024

39

September 2024

The Boolean Trap

Use enums instead

Sep 5, 2024

86

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July 2024

Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux

Jul 8, 2024

159

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April 2024

4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way

If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.

Apr 22, 2024

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February 2024

Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development

Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.

Feb 23, 2024

52

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January 2024

How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the…

Jan 14, 2024

112

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December 2023

A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow

A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no…

Dec 15, 2023

157

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How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction

A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics

Dec 4, 2023

192

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November 2023

Clever code is probably the worst code you could write

And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write

Nov 20, 2023

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