Software development - Topics

Cutting hallucinations in a production LLM app Watermarks for late-arriving events in a streaming join What does an LMS do that a shared drive cannot? Why time zones are a nightmare for programmers and what UTC is meant to fix MCP vs hand-written API integrations: what changes What belongs in a CLAUDE.md and what just wastes context Using subagents and hooks inside Claude Code Feature creep and scope creep are the same disease with two names Abandonware describes software nobody sells and nobody will let die Communication apps are priced per word board and locked to a single tablet When is rewriting a legacy service cheaper than patching it once more Why estimates slip even when every task was estimated honestly Should you hire a junior or a contractor for a six-month project How do you keep a monolith from turning into a distributed mess What does a staff engineer actually do all day Rewriting a ten-year-old internal tool vs patching it for another five years A firmware update bricked the fleet: how to stage IoT rollouts safely Phishing that survives MFA: how session token theft actually works Supply chain attacks: how much of your codebase you did not write yourself Are OpenXR and WebXR enough to end platform lock-in? Why does a pacemaker firmware update still require a clinic visit? Every year a platform rewrite is deferred the migration gets more expensive and less likely A technical debt ledger only works when someone owns the interest payments Platform teams and embedded engineers disagree about who owns the roadmap Platform companies compete for developers long before they compete for users Launch traffic from an aggregator site converts far worse than a documentation page Product managers without an engineering background lose the argument at the estimate meeting Whiteboard interviews filter for interview practice more than for engineering ability Comparing programming languages by speed ignores the libraries that decide the project Postgres or MongoDB for an order history that keeps changing shape Zero-downtime schema changes on a table that is always busy From dashboards to a churn model: who owns the feature pipeline