Thoughtful writing for developers

I tracked 100 PRs over 90 days. Copilot won on acceptance rate, but Cursor's code needed fewer rewrites. Here's what the numbers actually showed.

I'd been doing staff-level work for months but bombed my first interview. Here's the 90-day prep system I built after sitting on promotion committees.

After talking to dozens of teams who ditched their code review tools, I found one question that predicts success better than any feature comparison.

We ditched Jira for Linear's slick UI and speed. Six months later, reporting gaps and integration holes sent us crawling back. Here's what we learned.

After 6 months of migration pain, our team's Jira tax dropped from 4% of engineering time to nearly zero. But we lost some features we didn't expect to miss.

I went from "reliable" mid-level to staff engineer in 3 years. The 5 moves that actually mattered—and the 3 things I wasted time on.

Junior devs can earn anywhere from $55K to $115K with the same experience. Here's what actually explains that $60K gap—and how to land on the right side of it.

20+ hours of meetings a week, two VS Code opens in one day. I pitched a 90-day no-meetings experiment. Here's what actually happened to my output.

A 47,000-line class that handled payments AND printer config. 7 real code patterns I've seen nearly sink companies—and how to spot them before they detonate.

After 5 years stuck at senior, I realized the gap to staff had nothing to do with code quality. It's about which problems you choose to solve.