.NET C# 13: Yes, I Know It Dropped Last November. No, I Didn't Have Time C# 13 has been out for a while, but if you're like me — juggling legacy code, corporate chaos, and a home server that died a dumb death — you might be catching up late. Here’s what actually matters in the new release: shouting at nulls, prettier collections, and lambdas that finally get it together.
Beyond The Interview Beyond the Interview: Data Structures (#4 Hash Tables & Bloom Filters) Speed Demons With Trust Issues. You’ve probably rattled off a definition for both of these data structures in an interview before. But have you ever actually used them outside of Leetcode? If not, buckle up buttercup.
Beyond The Interview Beyond the Interview: Data Structures (#3 Stacks & Queues) Stacks go LIFO, queues go FIFO, and somewhere in the chaos, your job scheduler just rage-quit. Let’s cut the fluff and decode the real-world uses (and abuses) of these core data structures.
Career Red Alert to Red Tape From firefights and freedom to committees and compliance - this is the brutally honest, slightly sarcastic survival guide to transitioning from small dev shops to corporate life (and actually thriving in it).
Beyond The Interview Beyond the Interview: Data Structures (#2 Linked Lists) About This Series We’ve all been there—grinding LeetCode, memorizing tree traversals, and pretending to care about Red-Black Trees because some Big Tech interviewer insists they’re “fundamental.” But here’s the reality: 99% of the time, you’re just using Lists, Arrays, and HashMaps—and that’s fine.
Beyond The Interview Beyond the Interview: Data Structures (#1 Arrays & Lists) Dive beyond the typical interview prep and explore how choosing the right data structures—like arrays, lists, and spans—can revolutionize your coding efficiency. This series offers real-world insights, practical benchmarks, and a touch of humour to enhance your development skills.
Dig Deeper Dig Deeper: Understanding Performance Memory leaks are just performance assassins in disguise. 🗡️ You think .NET’s Garbage Collector has your back—until your app starts chugging like a 90s dial-up modem. 📉 Let’s crack open the black box of stack vs. heap, GC quirks, and sneaky performance killers, so your code stays lean and mean. 🚀
Soft skills Dealing with Friction: Office Politics, IT-Resistant Folks & Asshole Developers Office politics, egos, and tech skeptics—welcome to the chaos of IT. Whether you’re battling devs who think they’re gods, managers who don’t know what you do, or code reviews that turn into duels, this guide will help you navigate the madness (without flipping a desk… hopefully). 🚀
Technical Why Your .NET Dependency Injection is a Dumpster Fire Dependency Injection (DI) is one of those things that sounds great in theory, but in practice many devs take it too far, abstracting everything into oblivion until their code is an unreadable mess of interfaces, factories, and misplaced optimism.
Technical Let's Use AI to Generate Code! - A Guide to Spending 5 Weeks Debugging While AI can be useful for boilerplate code and simple utilities, blindly trusting it for business logic or security is a fast track to disaster. Just like Dreamweaver once filled the web with unreadable HTML, AI is now flooding with beautifully structured nonsense.
Technical Stop Blocking Your Threads: How (and When) to Use ConfigureAwait(false) Because your API deserves to run faster than a snail on sedatives.
Technical The 7 Stages of Grief When Deploying to Production Most developers experience the same emotional rollercoaster when pushing code to production. What can we do to make it less stressful?
Career The Current Landscape of Tech Hiring in Ireland Right now, the tech job market in Ireland is all about balancing risk and reward. Salary, contracting, in-demand skills, and remote versus on-site, the landscape is changing.
Technical Common .NET Security Mistakes That Will Get You Pwned Security isn’t an afterthought - it’s a fundamental part of software development and needs to be included at all stages of the SDLC.
Microservices Not Everything Needs to Be Microservices (Seriously, Stop It) Somewhere along the way, developers decided that every single application needed to be sliced into a hundred tiny, independently deployable services. And that is how we ended up in microservices hell.
Career The Most Important Skills to Move from Mid-Level to Senior Developer Becoming a senior developer isn't just about writing more code—it’s about thinking strategically, solving problems efficiently, and making an impact beyond your own work.
Career How to Think Like a Senior Developer: The Mindset Shift So, you want to level up from mid-level to senior developer? Maybe you're already there and wondering, What now?
