A debugging session leads to an unexpected lesson in communication. When a colleague dismisses you with ‘you don’t understand,’ the conversation is already lost — no matter how valid the point. Say it so they can hear it.

From assembly language and the demoscene to modern tech companies where four years make you ‘senior’ — after all this time, where does that leave me?

Should you join a startup or a big company? This question matters more than you think. Explore the tradeoffs between quality of life and quality of work, and why your early career choices can shape your entire trajectory.

A candid look at why I publish personal projects as open source—not because anyone will use them. The odds are essentially zero, and I know it. But the real value was never in the stars.

Evaluating humans is hard. So we invented peer feedback, hoping that multiplying subjective opinions would somehow produce objectivity. But what if more judges don’t actually mean more justice?