Degrees Are Cool. But So Is Actually Tinkering and Writing Code
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<!-- SC_OFF -->This post talks about the importance of actually writing code and getting your hands dirty, instead of waiting for the perfect course, college, curriculum, or teacher.
And in this rapidly changing tech world? I think it is really important. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Maleficent-Fall-3246 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Maleficent-Fall-3246)
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<!-- SC_OFF -->This post talks about the importance of actually writing code and getting your hands dirty, instead of waiting for the perfect course, college, curriculum, or teacher.
And in this rapidly changing tech world? I think it is really important. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Maleficent-Fall-3246 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Maleficent-Fall-3246)
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Want to Be a 10x Engineer? Start Saying No More Often
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kj8sfc/want_to_be_a_10x_engineer_start_saying_no_more/
<!-- SC_OFF -->I’ve been observing what separates engineers who consistently drive real impact from those who stay busy but invisible. It’s not brilliance. It’s not working late. The two help, but are not the key. It’s this: They say no. A lot. They say no to low-priority projects. No to solving problems that don’t need solving. No to endless tinkering with things that don’t move the business forward. No to scratching their curiosity itch during the working hours. I believe this, because I've experienced it: if the business succeeds, we all win. When the company grows, so do the opportunities, the compensation, the impact we get to make. But a lot of engineers get cynical about this. They say, “It’s not my job to question the work—I just build what I’m told.” So they spend their time in endless meetings for 6-month projects going nowhere. I disagree. Engineers are closer to the code and the product than almost anyone. We often know when something is pointless or bloated or chasing the wrong goal. But we stay quiet, or we grumble in Slack, or we ship it anyway. Not only are you hurting the business, and therefore yourself, you are also directly hurting your own career. What about the high performers? The 10x? They ask questions. They challenge priorities. They tie tech work to business outcomes—and when it doesn’t add up, they say so. Clearly, constructively, early, often. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/capn-hunch (https://www.reddit.com/user/capn-hunch)
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<!-- SC_OFF -->I’ve been observing what separates engineers who consistently drive real impact from those who stay busy but invisible. It’s not brilliance. It’s not working late. The two help, but are not the key. It’s this: They say no. A lot. They say no to low-priority projects. No to solving problems that don’t need solving. No to endless tinkering with things that don’t move the business forward. No to scratching their curiosity itch during the working hours. I believe this, because I've experienced it: if the business succeeds, we all win. When the company grows, so do the opportunities, the compensation, the impact we get to make. But a lot of engineers get cynical about this. They say, “It’s not my job to question the work—I just build what I’m told.” So they spend their time in endless meetings for 6-month projects going nowhere. I disagree. Engineers are closer to the code and the product than almost anyone. We often know when something is pointless or bloated or chasing the wrong goal. But we stay quiet, or we grumble in Slack, or we ship it anyway. Not only are you hurting the business, and therefore yourself, you are also directly hurting your own career. What about the high performers? The 10x? They ask questions. They challenge priorities. They tie tech work to business outcomes—and when it doesn’t add up, they say so. Clearly, constructively, early, often. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/capn-hunch (https://www.reddit.com/user/capn-hunch)
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Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path • Patrick Kua
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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast
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Loading speed matters / how I optimized my zsh shell to load in under 70ms
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<!-- SC_OFF -->My shell loaded way too slow so I spent an hour to fix it, and 5 more hours to write a blog post about it, and the importance of maintaining your tools. Hope you'll like it <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/dormunis1 (https://www.reddit.com/user/dormunis1)
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<!-- SC_OFF -->My shell loaded way too slow so I spent an hour to fix it, and 5 more hours to write a blog post about it, and the importance of maintaining your tools. Hope you'll like it <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/dormunis1 (https://www.reddit.com/user/dormunis1)
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Zig, the ideal C replacement or?
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How Windows 11 Killed A 90s Classic (& My Fix)
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Clases padres, clases hijas… ¿y las madres qué?
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OpenSearch 3.0 major release is out!
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<!-- SC_OFF -->OpenSearch 3.0 is out (first major release since the open source project joined the Linux Foundation), with nice upgrades to performance, data management, vector functionality, and more.
Some of the highlights include: Upgrade to Apache Lucene 10 and JDK 21+ Pull-based ingestion for streaming data, with support for Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Separate reads and writes for remote store for granular scaling and resource isolation Power agentic AI with native MCP (Model Context Protocol) support Investigate logs with expanded PPL query tools, backed by Apache Calcite Achieve 2.5x faster binary quantization with concurrent segment search <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/horovits (https://www.reddit.com/user/horovits)
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<!-- SC_OFF -->OpenSearch 3.0 is out (first major release since the open source project joined the Linux Foundation), with nice upgrades to performance, data management, vector functionality, and more.
Some of the highlights include: Upgrade to Apache Lucene 10 and JDK 21+ Pull-based ingestion for streaming data, with support for Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Separate reads and writes for remote store for granular scaling and resource isolation Power agentic AI with native MCP (Model Context Protocol) support Investigate logs with expanded PPL query tools, backed by Apache Calcite Achieve 2.5x faster binary quantization with concurrent segment search <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/horovits (https://www.reddit.com/user/horovits)
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This engineer tracked his time for more than a year and this is what he learned
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How I Connected My Home Network with AWS Regions Using Tailscale and VPC Peering
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kjw856/how_i_connected_my_home_network_with_aws_regions/
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A Critical Look at MCP
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kjwmj9/a_critical_look_at_mcp/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kjwmj9/a_critical_look_at_mcp/
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A web developer trying something different.
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<!-- SC_OFF -->Hey guys, Hope everybody is doing well. i just dropped my first video, and I thought I might. It's Titled "be a coder", and it's a narration of modern wishful thinking about quitting everything to become a programmer, and live the dream. With a twist. There are some hilarious bits and illustrations, and I hope you like it, and hopefully subscribe. Thanks for your time! Link: https://youtu.be/b4kyjHUJeR0 <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Formal_Caramel5547 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Formal_Caramel5547)
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<!-- SC_OFF -->Hey guys, Hope everybody is doing well. i just dropped my first video, and I thought I might. It's Titled "be a coder", and it's a narration of modern wishful thinking about quitting everything to become a programmer, and live the dream. With a twist. There are some hilarious bits and illustrations, and I hope you like it, and hopefully subscribe. Thanks for your time! Link: https://youtu.be/b4kyjHUJeR0 <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Formal_Caramel5547 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Formal_Caramel5547)
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Zig: A New Direction for Low-Level Programming?
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WASM 2.0
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6502 Illegal Opcodes in the Siemens PC 100 Assembly Manual (1980)
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A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde
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Programming Myths We Desperately Need to Retire
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Microservices on Unison Cloud: Statically Typed, Dynamically Deployed • Runar Bjarnason
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Android developer that can shake your confidence
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<!-- SC_OFF -->I was preparing for some interviews and took chatGPT help for it. I am an android developer with 5 years exp i told chatGPT to ask me some most difficult questions. I created proper prompt with the topics of focus. ChatGPT literally threw me out of the window. Some of the questions were so hard I had to stop guessing in between and ask it for answers. Like literal hard. This questions were such a attack on my confidence that I decided to share it with the community. I wrote a medium article and shared all the questions there. Read and check if you can answer them. Best of luck. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Sensitive_Bison_8803 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Sensitive_Bison_8803)
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<!-- SC_OFF -->I was preparing for some interviews and took chatGPT help for it. I am an android developer with 5 years exp i told chatGPT to ask me some most difficult questions. I created proper prompt with the topics of focus. ChatGPT literally threw me out of the window. Some of the questions were so hard I had to stop guessing in between and ask it for answers. Like literal hard. This questions were such a attack on my confidence that I decided to share it with the community. I wrote a medium article and shared all the questions there. Read and check if you can answer them. Best of luck. <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Sensitive_Bison_8803 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Sensitive_Bison_8803)
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