Technology

I've watched senior engineers bomb system design interviews for 2 years. Your production experience might actually be the problem. Here's why.

Got rejected for staff engineer twice before figuring out what committees actually evaluate. Here's the 18-month timeline and packet strategy that worked.

I tested 7 PKM tools for coding work. Obsidian won for its local Markdown files and Git support, but Notion still does one thing better.

After 3 months of tracking every session, one tool hit 80% accuracy while the other stalled at 65%. The winner surprised me for frontend work.

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.

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.