<devtips/> articles - 135 total
5 dev personalities that quietly sabotage your team (and how to survive them)
These teammates won’t crash your code but they’ll crash your team morale. You know the feeling:...
You might not be a junior anymore, but are you thinking like a senior dev? These 10 mental models reveal the difference.
Not about writing better code; it's about thinking like someone who builds systems You write good...
I’m a software engineer in my 30s, sharing the 20 hard truths I wish I knew in my 20s to avoid career burnout.
“Your 20s are for compounding skills, reputation, and commits; the kind that won’t make you hate...
Burned out, done, ready to quit coding, but a 5-minute habit changed everything
When even Stack Overflow couldn’t save me, a single sticky note did. It was Minimum Viable Effort →...
10 coding habits that turn devs into legends (or at least into deployers who don’t panic)
Forget hacks. These daily habits will make your future self high-five you (and your git log less...
70 Years of Programming Language Takeovers: Past Giants, Current Kings, and Future Contenders
A deep dive into the languages that built the digital world, the ones that dominate today, and the...
9 Developer myths that waste your time — You must unlearn to level up
You’ve been told to write clean code, chase test coverage, and never repeat yourself but what if...
Zero Trust, One Router: Hardening Your Home Lab Like a Cyber Fortress.
Build military-grade security into your weekend home lab without turning your hallway into a...
DevOps, MLOps, or Platform Engineering, In 2025, who will own the pipeline?
Introduction the pipeline is fracturing in 2025 Once upon a DevOps time, shipping software meant...
Clean code, fast code, or no-code? pick two and pray
Intro why modern code feels cursed You can write clean code. You can ship fast code. You can even...
Vibe coding is destroying architecture: the silent rot in our AI-built systems
We’re shipping faster than ever, but under the surface, the structure is rotting. AI code can pass...
Ditched Terraform for OpenTofu. Why Devs Everywhere Are Making the Same Move (cheatsheet included)
The Terraform era is fading. In 2025, OpenTofu is what real devs are betting their stacks on. This...
Devops isn’t broken it just hurts more than we admit
The automation dream, meet reality DevOps was supposed to be our escape from chaos. We were promised...
Revolutionize your CLI: add AI to kubectl for smarter Kubernetes management
Introduction: kubectl is powerful but not exactly helpful If you’ve ever stared at a...
Dev world, unplugged: 65,000+ developers’ survey results on code, AI, and burnout in 2024 (and why you should speak up in 2025)
Intro what 65,437 devs just told the world Every year, Stack Overflow drops the developer equivalent...
How Bad Code and Product Flaws Killed Myspace A Developer’s Survival Guide
Featured Introduction: When social media was wild and weird Before TikTok dances and...
The Hidden Power of Redis: Fast, Flexible, and Freakishly Simple
Why Redis isn’t just fast it’s dangerously useful Redis gets called a cache. Which is kind of like...
CI/CD Is Your Code’s Nervous System, Your App Doesn’t Ship Without It
CI/CD isn’t just pipelines it’s your code’s nervous system CI/CD gets thrown around in meetings...
RIP Prompt Engineering (once the hottest AI job): Why the Future Belongs to System Designers
For about six months, “prompt engineer” was the most buzzworthy title in tech. People were getting...
The Perfect Dev Life Is a Fantasy, and It’s Holding You Back
1. The fantasy of the perfect dev life Scroll through TikTok or LinkedIn long enough and you’ll...
Why most code feels forgettable and how obsession makes it unforgettable
1. The myth of discipline in coding If you’ve spent any time in dev Twitter, bootcamps, or tech...
Brains. Bugs. Dopamine. how to trick yourself into loving code again
Section 1: Coding shouldn’t feel like a chore I used to open my terminal like it was a cursed...
How ChatGPT broke the internet and made Google panic
1. Introduction: The AI that googled Google There’s a new war brewing on the internet and no, it’s...
So, tech salaries stopped climbing now what? we are not hiring right now, the new normal.
Introduction: the dream job market is dead, long live the dev grind There was a time when being a...
Self-hosting like a final boss: what I actually run on my home lab (and why)
Intro: welcome to the chaos but it’s your chaos Self-hosting in 2025 feels a bit like building a...
10 hands-on Docker projects that’ll actually level up your skills not just hello-world junk
Introduction: Why your Docker skills still suck (and how to fix that) Let’s be honest running docker...
From tutorial zombie to builder brain: How I finally learned to code by building messy little projects
Introduction: When watching tutorials feels like progress but isn’t Let’s be real: if you’ve ever...
The Dev-First Playbook to MCP: Build smarter AI interfaces and actually make money
The AI revolution isn’t just about chat, it’s about getting things done. We’ve seen what LLMs can...
Your laptop can run a full devops stack here’s how I set mine up
1. Intro devops isn’t just for the cloud elite The internet loves throwing DevOps buzzwords at you:...
Why your code works but feels weird (and how to fix the vibe)
1. Introduction when code “works” but still feels broken You’ve built the feature. No errors. No...