14h ago · 3 min read · I've been on both sides of the table for software engineering interviews, and the most common reason strong engineers get rejected isn't a lack of skill. It's that the loop is a format, and they prepa
Join discussion17h ago · 11 min read · Look. I’ve been breaking things since before it was normal for kids to have phones. I watched the entire security industry grow up from a hobby into a bloated bureaucracy of certifications, compliance
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1d ago · 4 min read · Over the past few months, AI coding tools have been everywhere. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Codeium — every few weeks there's something new claiming it will completely change how developers writ
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2d ago · 5 min read · Everyone teaches you how to code. Nobody teaches you everything else that comes with it. The syntax. The frameworks. The tutorials. All of that is available everywhere. But the things that actually de
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3d ago · 8 min read · At problem 47 I thought I was making progress. At problem 83 I was confident. At problem 100 I felt ready. Then I failed the interview. Not because the problem was impossibly hard. Because I had solve
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4d ago · 9 min read · Most DP guides teach you solutions. This one teaches you derivation. There is a meaningful difference between the two. When you memorize a solution, you can reproduce it on the exact problem you pract
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