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Design internal developer platforms that accelerate delivery using self-service infrastructure, golden paths, platform APIs, developer experience metrics, and adoption strategies that earn trust instead of mandating compliance.
Apply SRE toil reduction principles to everyday engineering work by identifying repetitive manual tasks, measuring their true cost, building targeted automation, and establishing a culture where toil elimination is treated as real engineering output.
The developer tools, shell setup, editor configuration, and workflow automations that compound over a career — and how to build a setup that gets out of your way.
A practical framework for designing a developer productivity system that grows with your responsibilities, from individual contributor through tech lead and beyond, without collapsing under its own weight.
Master pair programming across remote and in-person settings with practical techniques for driver-navigator rotations, knowledge sharing, and session structures that produce better code while avoiding the common pitfalls that make pairing feel exhausting.
Apply deep work principles to software development with concrete scheduling strategies, environment design, interruption management, and energy-aware task allocation that protect the extended focus periods coding demands.
Build practical automation scripts that eliminate daily development friction including project scaffolding, database seeding, log analysis, and deployment verification using Node.js and shell commands.
Design a sustainable knowledge management workflow using Zettelkasten principles, progressive summarization, and spaced repetition to retain technical concepts and connect ideas across domains effectively.
Design a personal automation system that eliminates repetitive developer tasks using shell scripts, cron jobs, notification hooks, and lightweight workflow orchestrators to reclaim hours each week.
Shift from optimizing hours to optimizing energy by aligning high-cognitive tasks with peak mental states, building recovery rituals, and structuring your development workflow around sustainable focus cycles.
Create a personal knowledge management system tailored for software engineers that captures technical learnings, debugging solutions, design decisions, and architectural patterns for instant retrieval.
How to integrate LLMs into your code review workflow — covering automated review bots, prompt patterns for catching bugs, security analysis, and balancing AI suggestions with human judgment.
Practical productivity systems for remote developers — covering async communication, focus time protection, home office ergonomics, and workflows that prevent burnout while maintaining high output.
Practical strategies for identifying and automating repetitive development tasks — from shell scripts and code generators to Git aliases and project scaffolding tools that save hours every week.
How keeping a structured engineering journal improves debugging speed, decision-making, and career growth — with templates and daily practices that take less than ten minutes.
A framework for identifying, categorizing, prioritizing, and paying down technical debt without halting feature development — using debt inventories, capacity allocation, and measurable payoff criteria.
Practical strategies for protecting focused programming time, reducing context switching, and structuring your day so that deep technical thinking becomes the default instead of the exception.
Practical strategies for recognizing, recovering from, and preventing burnout in software engineering — covering workload management, boundaries, and sustainable productivity habits.
How to integrate AI tools into your code review workflow — covering automated suggestions, security scanning, review prioritization, and maintaining human judgment.
Practical time management strategies designed for engineering work — including deep work scheduling, context-switching reduction, energy management, and meeting optimization.
How to build a sustainable knowledge management system as a developer — covering note-taking frameworks, linking strategies, and retrieval workflows that compound over time.
Practical pair programming techniques that boost code quality and knowledge sharing — covering driver-navigator, ping-pong, and remote pairing workflows.
Practical prompt engineering techniques that turn LLMs into reliable coding assistants — covering context management, chain-of-thought, and structured outputs.
The practical Vim motions and workflows that actually speed up daily coding — no ideology required, just concrete editing efficiency.
How to use git bisect, conditional breakpoints, and systematic debugging techniques to find bugs in minutes instead of hours.
Practical techniques for writing documentation, ADRs, and technical specs that your team will actually read and maintain.