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How to Say No Differently
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In Praise of Property-Based Testing
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Why Text is the Universal Interface
How we've forgotten this to be true
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Why Skill Acquisition is Hard
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Why would you want GraphQL
Or how frontend engineers tricked backend engineers into doing more work 😅
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Why You Should Upgrade Laptops Regularly
3 Reasons for How it Effectives Your Productivity
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Why that AI Tool Didn't 10x Your Work
"Look Ma! No Thought!"
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Software should do one thing well
Avoid the Land of Feature Creep where the Tech Debt Lies
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Why the Second System Effect traps so many
Little by little we make too much.
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