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How to Contribute to Open Source: A Practical Guide

A practical, honest guide to finding projects worth contributing to, reading a codebase before touching it, making your first pull request and handling review feedback. From someone who has done it and built a 217-topic Git course in the process.

Why Every Software Engineer Should Understand Hardware

An argument for why understanding hardware - registers, memory, timing, power - makes you a significantly better software engineer, regardless of whether you ever write firmware.

Inside British Airways Engineering: What a Maintenance Simulation Taught Me

Reflections on the British Airways Engineering Virtual Experience on Forage, covering A320 maintenance planning, C-check operations and what aviation engineering looks like from the inside.

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How I'd Learn to Code If I Had to Start Over

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I Was Laid Off by Atlassian

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You and Your Research

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How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)

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Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

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How to Be Successful

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The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter

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Ask HN

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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025

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