Reaching an annual salary of ¥8,000,000 is often seen as a major milestone for software engineers in Japan in 2026. On paper, it sounds like a ticket to a comfortable, upper-middle-class life in Tokyo. But is 8 million yen a good salary in Tokyo—really? But if you are coming from abroad—or if you've only looked at the "Gross" figure on your offer letter—you might be walking into a "logic bug" that
Most freelancers, developers, and job seekers already have their work spread across different platforms. LinkedIn profiles Portfolio websites GitHub projects Freelance platform listings Blog posts Community posts But as more people use AI tools to search, recommend, and discover talent, scattered links can be hard for AI to understand as one clear professional presence. I recently launched a free
Microsoft’s AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution exam is designed for Azure AI engineers who build, deploy, secure, and manage AI solutions using Azure AI services, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, computer vision, natural language processing, knowledge mining, and generative AI capabilities. The exam is proctored, has a listed duration of 100 minutes, and measures practi
Last Tuesday I lost about three hours to a regression in our checkout service. The cart total was off by a cent on certain promo combinations, and the only signal was a Slack ping from finance with a screenshot. No stack trace. No exception. Just wrong numbers. I did what I always do first. I opened the diff for the last deploy, scrolled, squinted, and tried to feel my way to the bug. Forty minute
80% of the time, coding is a performance. The other 20% is doing real coding. Performance means Scrum ceremonies, meetings, and JIRA: A meeting to present tickets for the next two weeks A meeting to answer questions from the previous meeting A meeting to watch someone enter a number in a text box. Read: poker planning and story points Meetings to watch someone move a ticket between JIRA lanes. Rea
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Applicant Tracking Systems used to be boring. For most of the 2010s, an ATS was essentially a database with a careers page bolted on top: a place to dump resumes, push them through a pipeline of stages, and email rejections in bulk. The interesting work happened around it, not inside it. That has shifted in the last two years, and the shift is deeper than the marketing pages suggest. I have spent
Cada vez es más fácil escribir código. Hoy alguien puede abrir un editor, describir lo que quiere en lenguaje natural, y obtener una aplicación funcional en minutos. Herramientas de IA, frameworks más amigables, plantillas, tutoriales infinitos. Entrar a programar nunca había sido tan accesible. Y eso parece una buena noticia. Pero esa facilidad trae una pregunta incómoda: si entrar es tan fácil,