Category: Programming
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I once watched two developers spend twenty minutes arguing with a merge conflict that involved four lines of code. Not four hundred. Four. One person had renamed a button. The other had changed what happened when it was clicked. Git displayed the usual brackets and arrows, both developers sighed, and someone in Slack posted the…
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A friend built an employee leave tracker over a weekend. He wasn’t a developer. He described the screens to an AI coding tool, copied a few error messages back into the chat, and kept clicking “accept” whenever new code appeared. By Sunday evening, the app looked surprisingly good. Employees could request leave. Managers could approve…
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The first time I used an API, I thought I had misunderstood the assignment. I was building a tiny page that showed GitHub activity. I wrote a few lines, sent a request, and suddenly somebody else’s data appeared inside my app. That was it? I had expected more ceremony. Instead, my code asked a question…