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Code like Hemingway

Our compilers forced us to write clearly. Our coding agents won’t do that.

By Nick Hodges

Jun 17, 20264 mins

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From the engine room to the bridge: What the modern leadership shift means for architects like me

The old technical script is dead. Today’s architects have to realize that even the best platform will fail if they haven't built the "social infrastructure" and trust to support it.

By Raul Leite

Apr 21, 2026 6 mins

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Where will developer wisdom come from?

Perhaps we have arrived at a point today where all of the wisdom that longtime developers have gained is simply not needed anymore.

By Nick Hodges

Apr 15, 2026 5 mins

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Are AI certifications worth the investment?

The AI credential revolution: A guide for IT professionals and business leaders.

By Paul Frenken

Apr 13, 2026 14 mins

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Mastering the dull reality of sexy AI

The real gap in enterprise AI isn’t who has access to models. It’s who has learned how to build retrieval, evaluation, memory, and governance into boring, repeatable systems.

By Matt Asay

Apr 13, 2026 6 mins

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Microsoft’s reauthentication snafu cuts off developers globally

Some ISVs never saw the notice that they had to re-authenticate, whereas others say that Microsoft reauthenticated them and they were blocked anyway.

By Evan Schuman

Apr 9, 2026 6 mins

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The winners and losers of AI coding

Goodbye and good riddance to all of those infuriatingly unmaintainable legacy balls of mud. Modern, bespoke replacements are on the horizon.

By Nick Hodges

Apr 8, 2026 4 mins

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What next for junior developers?

The junior developers of the future may be more English major than budding programmer.

By Nick Hodges

Apr 1, 2026 5 mins

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What front-end engineers need to know about AWS

Your "buggy" UI might actually be AWS doing its job; learning how the cloud handles your code makes debugging faster and your loading states way smarter.

By Niharika Pujari

Mar 31, 2026 7 mins

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New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto‑executes attacks on developers

The newly observed malware abuses VS Code’s “runOn:folderOpen” feature to execute automatically from trusted projects, enabling near-frictionless compromise.

By Shweta Sharma

Mar 24, 2026 3 mins

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Markdown is now a first-class coding language: Deal with it

Critics call Garry Tan’s gstack just a bunch of text files. They’re right — and that’s exactly why the future of agentic development looks like Markdown.

By Nick Hodges

Mar 18, 2026 4 mins

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