Most agency onboarding fails before the kickoff call happens. Not because the team isn't good. Not because the client is difficult. Because nobody collected the right context upfront, and the kickoff call becomes the place where everyone discovers what they don't know yet. The intake form is the fix. Not a 3-question "tell us about your project" form. A real one. Here's the framework we use — 27 q
Friday I got a new camera to replace the one that broke last year. It's a Canon Rebel with two lenses. The buttons and functions are different from the previous camera so my muscle memory is no good. I have to relearn it all. Spent the weekend at the Renaissance Festival and got some great pics. What are you building this week? What do you want to learn? What events are you attending this week?
Every few years the industry rediscovers that programming languages are not religions. Then we immediately behave like they are religions. Someone posts a benchmark. Someone else says memory safety. Someone says developer experience. A distributed systems person appears from under a bridge and whispers “Erlang solved this in 1998.” A startup founder announces they are rewriting their CRUD app in R
Making yogurt at home isn't hard. You can control the sugar, the fat, add any flavour you want. Free from the tyranny of Big Yogurt! Yet somehow, Danone is still doing fine. Same goes for home-brewed beer, homemade bread, 3D printing. All great hobbies. All more accessible than ever. None have actually disrupted their industries. Better tools raise the floor and the ceiling. The hobbyist gets bett
Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and more expensive because criminals are still getting paid. Despite growing awareness, the economics of ransomware still favour attackers. Only 17% of UK organisations hit by ransomware chose to pay, but even among those who do pay, outcomes remain unreliable. According to UK‑wide data, oranisations are now three times more likely to recover from backups
Becoming a tech lead was the goal from pretty early in my career. I had a clear picture of what the role was. More responsibility, more influence over the work, more of the interesting problems landing on my desk because someone had to figure them out and that someone, finally, would be me. It read like the natural next step. The thing you graduate to once you're good enough. What that picture did
Meme Monday! Today's cover image comes from the last thread. DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in poor taste will be downvoted by mods.
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