Serious Semicolons

According to a new survey whose results were summarized in a recent Gizmodo article, CEOs are planning on slashing junior roles in the near future to focus on mid-level roles as work on low-level, simple tasks shifts to AI.

I was reading the latest newsletter by Brent Roose, Developer Advocate for PHP at JetBrains, and I found myself disagreeing — out loud, apparently, because my 6-year-old looked over from her morning routine, unmoved, most likely because she is not a PHP d…

I was as excited as any AI-aware engineer would be when I learned that OpenAI had announced a grand leap forward in the image generation capabilities of it’s 4o model.

I was conversing with a colleague today and we were lamenting the ever-growing pile of technical debt in a project we were both working on.

I had to go nine rounds recently with a really elusive test situation where certain tests would fail downstream, but only if certain OTHER tests were enabled and running in the test suite.

(please forgive the title, a textbook example of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines) I was working on a new project recently for which one of the requirements was very high test coverage.

I had someone recently ask me for some samples of my work.

There are a million differentiators between juniors and seniors (sidebar: if you’re a junior looking to level up, check out this awesome list of tips) but in my experience the biggest one is how they approach the creation of new features.

I have a success story to share, and it’s proof that as engineers we should Never Stop Learning (sidenote: this is also my personal credo).

I was adding a new feature to my CakePHP SecureIDs Plugin today and needed to test it against a living, breathing CakePHP app.