Duplessis van Aswegen articles - 30 total
Helper, Utility, Factory… or Something More Sinister?
The File That Should’ve Stayed Boring A harmless little helper that became a logic hydra....
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The Abstraction That Hid the Only Logic That Mattered ...
The Abstraction That Hid the Only Logic That Mattered
It’s Always the Refund It started, as these things always do, with a Slack message from...
I was planning on working on this for much longer…
But i wouldn’t be following my own advice if I didn’t know when to let go. Read the final...
It’s been a few weeks since I started this series. I expected to continue working on it for longer, but I wouldn’t be following my own advice if I didn’t know when to let it go. Read the final instalment (and those before) and let me know what you think!
Let It Go (No, Seriously): How to Stop Clutching and Start...
Let It Go (No, Seriously): How to Stop Clutching and Start Living
You used to carry everything. If someone dropped the ball, you dove. If a decision seemed off, you...
Beware the Shiny Tech Trap
It's 10:06 a.m. on a Tuesday. Planning is humming along. The team’s finally got some momentum, the...
Senioritis: How to Keep Growing, Not Flatline in Premium Pajamas
You used to love this work. Learning something new felt like a high. Getting stuck was a puzzle, not...
Curb Your Cynicism, Cultivate Curiosity
The eye-roll isn’t a personality trait. It’s a warning sign. It starts as a harmless...
Thick Skin, Open Mind: How to Take Hits Without Shutting Down
It happens faster than a bad merge. You’re standing in the team meeting, explaining a...
Feedback Isn’t Failure. It’s a Debugging Tool.
"Clarify what, exactly, Kyle?" You spent six hours polishing that pull request until it...
Morale Is a System, But One Person Can Poison It
It’s 9:00 AM. Standup. Someone says, “I’m blocked.” You hear it - the sigh. That deep, theatrical...
Everyone Feels Like a Fraud. The Good Ones Just Admit It.
It’s a quiet, creeping voice. Sometimes it whispers after a standup: “You sounded confident, but...
Lead Without a Title (Influence > Authority)
Titles Are for LinkedIn You spot the smoke first. Not the fun kind, like “this feature is...
Refactor, Recharge, Repeat
You’re Great at Cleaning Up Code But Terrible at Cleaning Up Your Life It’s 7:58 PM. You...
Take the Blame, Pass the Praise
You Ship the Fix. PM Claps. Slack Drops a Few Thumbs Up. You smile. Quietly. What no one...
Great Engineers Are Guides, Not Gatekeepers
You’re Not the Main Character Anymore At some point in your career, something shifts. You...
They Can’t Read Your Mind – Communicate Proactively
The Phantom Refactor and the Confused Teammate You just spent four hours untangling a...
They Can’t Read Your Mind – Communicate Proactively
The Phantom Refactor and the Confused Teammate You just spent four hours untangling a...
Say What You Mean (Without Being a Jerk)
A Truth Bomb Can Blow Up the Room Someone botched a deploy. You know how. You know why....
You Can’t Scale If You Touch Everything
You’re not proving your value. You’re burning it. Some engineers can’t stop touching...
Your Team’s Culture Is Written in Your Pull Requests
Not your values doc. Not your town hall. Your PRs. Everyone loves to talk about team...
Ask Dumb Questions Early
Because fixing it later costs way more than looking stupid now. You wrote the code. It...
The Best Engineers Don’t Block - They Unblock
Everyone wants to be the go-to engineer. The one who “just gets it done.” The one with the answers....
Stop coding mazes, code maps instead
You ever open a file and wonder what kind of sociopath wrote this mess? Yeah. It was you. Six months...
Your Code Isn’t the Problem. Your Context Is.
A lot of engineers spend their careers writing elegant, well-tested solutions to the wrong...
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Shipped Beats Pretty, Every Time Duplessis van Aswegen ・...
Shipped Beats Pretty, Every Time
Many engineers spend days crafting the ideal solution, tweaking every line to be just right. But in...
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Help! It’s Another TypeScript Metadata Registry! (But this...
Help! It’s Another TypeScript Metadata Registry! (But this one's useful)
I’ve worked on many TypeScript projects over the years, and one recurring challenge has been managing...