“Stop blindly grinding leetcode. Start grindly blinding blind75” — At long last, I am releasing my CORGIS into the wild — this is a webpage based on Yangshun Tay’s Blind75, but with YouTube resources and topic lists for every question. The webpage is simply hosted on GitHub Pages. Who Is This For? This is for software engineer candidates who…

The intersection of science and art — contains discussions of rhythm, rhyme, and puns — In my first year of college, our professor gave us a “giveaway question” on the final to pad our grades — Write your vision for what coding could one day be. …

A window into HTML/CSS — Last time I wrote a blog post about HTML, it got thoroughly roasted by Jason Knight. After reading through a number of his articles/comments, I would summarize some of his stances like this: Too many people are using web frameworks and no-code tools unnecessarily As a result, many websites today…

Twitter, a Twitter debate, and a window into microservices — My article about whether Elon Musk fired people using lines of code as his sole metric (summary: probably not) is easily the most popular post on this blog, but it was also criticized as “navel-gazing” by one commenter — he said that only 10 people actually know what Elon Musk…

A conversation about “lines of code” is a good window into the state of the entire tech industry — I posted my last article, “Did Elon Musk Really Fire People Using Lines Of Code As His Metric?”, just a few days ago. It is already my third most viewed, and at this rate it will probably be the top. …

It looks like he at least pitched the idea, but the source is Pragmatic Engineer talking about a leak — This post is a response to Bennett Garner and his article Elon Musk just force-ranked Twitter engineers & fired the bottom. From the article: “Lines of code written in the past year” was his metric… I am here to critique his approach to reducing overhead. Recent reports have Twitter at…

My not-so-simple answer to a pretty common question — I have one blog that focuses primarily on software engineer interviews, while this one focuses mostly on personal projects — I thought it might be fun, for a couple weeks, if I tried swapping the two. Are coding interviews fair? My opinion overall is that coding interviews CAN BE fair…

A window into the kinds of things people have built with C++ — If you are looking for a very comprehensive article about what REDHAWK is, how to install it, and how to use it, then stop reading this…read this instead. What I have just linked is the official REDHAWK documentation. It says: REDHAWK is a software package that supports the design, development…

A closer look at Phoenix LiveView, alongside my first meaningful pull request — I had seriously considered calling this post “We Need Phoenix LiveView,” which would have combined both the “We Need” series I write and the ShlinkedIn one, but there are still some questions I have (though it still may be a good topic for a future article). The answer to why…