Software development - Topics

The Mythical Man-Month is still assigned because the failure mode refuses to retire Take-home coding assignments and how marking had to change once answers were online stdio vs HTTP transport in MCP Moving a nightly batch job to incremental processing Debugging when Claude Code keeps failing the same test When should a designer choose a wizard flow over one dense form? Writing your first MCP server: where to start Retiring an API version breaks a partner integration nobody told you about Why do API docs go stale within weeks of a release? Deadlocks in a payment flow and the order the writes must take Usability benchmarks across releases: timing the same task every quarter Sponsoring a conference buys attention that documentation cannot Phishing that survives MFA: how session token theft actually works What exactly-once really guarantees in a streaming framework MCP vs hand-written API integrations: what changes Silicon Valley the series is funnier if you have worked inside the parody Real-time vs nightly fraud checks: the latency budget What the LLM temperature setting actually changes Watermarks for late-arriving events in a streaming join Should a small team run its own build servers or pay for hosted CI Bug and glitch carry different blame and engineers choose carefully How an MCP server exposes tools to an assistant How do you keep a monolith from turning into a distributed mess Backfilling three years of history after a logic bug in the daily job Most outages trace back to a configuration change rather than failed hardware Feature creep and scope creep are the same disease with two names Should you hire a junior or a contractor for a six-month project Why do so many self-taught programmers stall after the basics? What does an LMS do that a shared drive cannot? Who decides which error messages a user is allowed to see? Why platform technologies and application technologies get treated differently Cutting hallucinations in a production LLM app