Over the years I've interviewed and spoken with many junior developers. One thing I've noticed is that most candidates worry about the wrong things. Many juniors spend weeks memorizing framework-specific details, algorithms, or interview questions they found online. They worry about getting stuck during a coding exercise or being asked a question they don't know the answer to. Meanwhile, the candidates who leave the strongest impression…
Pull requests, merge requests, and code reviews. You’ve probably heard these terms before. A code review is the moment developers ask each other for feedback. A bugfix or new feature is finished, and before it can go live, someone else takes a look. Even if the change works functionally, there’s often room to…
Since the start of my career as a developer, I’ve seen a lot of changes. From the rise of Dreamweaver with a WYSIWYG editor for generating table code to the arrival of jQuery and professional frameworks that completely transformed web development. Nowadays, there seems to be only one buzzword everywhere: AI.…
