A list of articles and what-not that I've saved.

• DRY vs SoC, a difficult choice

• Why a coding AI like Github Copilot won't take your job

• Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests

  You'll know your tests are good when you rarely have to change the tests to fit the new code. Most unit tests I've seen in production fail this criteria. Most integration and end-to-end tests pass.

• For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech

  doing a code exercise has almost nothing in common with doing the actual job. The skills and experience are almost completely different.

  Worse: this style of interview filters out people who would’ve been excellent at the job—working tickets, building features, understanding the system, collaborating on a team—but who don’t have the testing skills. (Which, again, are all things the actual job pretty much never calls for.)

• Code review antipatterns

  Keep everybody on their toes by suddenly objecting to an aspect of the change that you’ve never had a problem with before. Following the existing pattern just isn’t good enough! The author ought to have anticipated that you’ve recently changed your mind about what this type of change should look like.

• The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

• The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

• I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind

• AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?

• CSS Triggers List - What Kind of Changes You Can Make

• DIY Authentication and Authorization in SvelteKit 1 with SQLite

• The Case for Design Engineers Part 2

• The Case for Design Engineers

• The undercover generalist

• FooBar is FooBad: Why Concrete Is Better Than Abstract

  Mentally mapping concrete concepts is hard. Analogies are tricky and full of false assumptions. Maps are not the territory. You’re trying to collapse life in all its complexity to something recognizable but not overly reductive or inaccurate. But the solution is not to confuse abstractness for clarity.

• A Complete Guide to CSS Grid

• A Complete Guide to Flexbox

• Form Validation Part 1: Constraint Validation in HTML

• Weird things engineers believe about Web development

• React Server Components: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

• 20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

• The looming demise of the 10x developer

• Why Chatbots Are Not the Future

• You’re not lacking creativity, you’re overwhelmed

• Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React