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Software Architects: Visionaries or Just Developers with a Fancier Title?

Everyone wants to be a Software Architect—it sounds impressive, commands higher salaries, and lets you feel like the mastermind behind an entire system. But let’s be honest: how many “architects...

10.03.2025 0 Read More

Burnout Bingo: Spotting the Signs Before You Blackout

Ah, burnout—the silent killer of motivation, productivity, and your will to open another Jira ticket. It sneaks up on you like a memory leak in production, slowly draining your energy until one day,...

12.03.2025 0 Read More

Mindfulness and Coding: Techniques to Enhance Focus and Reduce Stress

Let’s be honest—most developers have the attention span of a goldfish on caffeine. Between Slack notifications, never-ending Jira tickets, and that one PM who insists on “just a quick call,” s...

13.03.2025 0 Read More

The Role of Storytelling in User Experience Design

Good UX design isn’t just about making things usable—it’s about making them memorable. And what’s the secret to creating experiences that stick? Storytelling.Think about it. The best products ...

14.03.2025 0 Read More

The Intersection of Art and Code: How Creativity Shapes Software Development

Most people think of coding as a purely logical, analytical pursuit—a land of ones and zeros, algorithms, and efficiency. But let’s be real: if software development were just about following rules...

17.03.2025 0 Read More

The Overengineer’s Handbook: How to Build a Rocket to Toast Bread

Every dev team has at least one Overengineer™—the brilliant mind who can turn a simple task into a full-scale architectural marvel. Asked to build a to-do list? Here comes a Kubernetes cluster wit...

18.03.2025 0 Read More

Why Every Tech Interview Feels Like an Episode of ‘Survivor’

Welcome to the modern tech interview, where the weak are eliminated, the strong barely survive, and the final reward is a job where you’ll probably still be asked to reverse a linked list—for no r...

19.03.2025 0 Read More

The Most Useless Features You’ve Ever Built (And Why It Happened)

Every developer, at some point, has built a feature so useless, so completely unnecessary, that they’ve questioned their entire career. Maybe it was an overcomplicated dark mode toggle. Maybe it was...

20.03.2025 0 Read More

Debugging: The Five Stages of Grief

Debugging is a journey—a painful, soul-crushing journey that no developer escapes. It starts with hope (“This will be a quick fix”) and ends with despair (“Burn it all down”) before looping ...

24.03.2025 0 Read More

Pair Programming with Myself at 3AM: A Psychological Thriller

It’s 3:00 AM. The glow of VS Code reflects off my hollow, sleep-deprived eyes. Everyone else is dreaming. I’m debugging. Alone. Or so I thought.That’s when he shows up.Me. But from like, two hou...

15.04.2025 0 Read More