Will AI coding agents pirate all our jobs? Not if we take back control, using my six-step PIRATE workflow for shipboard discipline.
Castle building for beginners: marketing yourself
Marketing doesn’t come naturally to most engineers, but it’s more essential than ever. Here’s lesson 1.
Rewriting the world in Rust
The world runs on legacy code—hundreds of millions of lines of it. Can we rewrite it all in Rust? And is that even a good idea?
The power of GoLand: 10 hidden spells
Modern IDEs like GoLand are more than just a text editor: they’re packed with power coding features that can turn you into a software superhero.
Where the sun keeps shinin': the provider pattern in Rust
Let’s add a provider abstraction to brighten up our Rust weather client’s API.
It's a lock: sync.Mutex in Go
When two goroutines go to war, a data race is all that you can score. To prevent that, Go’s sync.Mutex type can help.
Zero Cost to Love
She’s an internationally famous high-performance computing architect. He’s a rumpled, handsome, yet socially awkward basement coder. They fall in love—blazing fast.
The Batman trap: when helping isn't helping
What does a consultant actually do? Sometimes the right answer, surprisingly, is “nothing”.
Aprende Rust: recursos en español
Enlaces y recursos en español para aprender el lenguaje de programación Rust.
My Rust dev setup in 2026
You don’t need many tools to write Rust—just a decent editor, and maybe an AI assistant or two. Here’s my Rust dev setup in 2026.
Go the right way: the Zen of Go coding
I finally found the one serene, omnicompetent guru who writes perfect code! Here are her ten secret mantras of Go excellence.
Rust vs Go: ¿cuál elegir?
Un resumen de Rust y Go que destaca sus ventajas, señala lo que comparten y aclara sus diferencias clave. ¿Cuál deberías elegir?
Rust vs Go
Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
What's so great about Rust?
If you’ve heard about Rust and you’re wondering about the facts behind the hype, this is for you: no sales pitch, just a clear, point-by-point outline of why Rust is worth considering.
The secret consultant: your first steps to independence
At work, nobody need know you’re a secret consultant. As well as preparing you to run your own business someday, it might also make you a better employee.
The best Rust books for 2026, reviewed
There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
Racing with disaster: data races in Go
Writing concurrent programs is easy, but understanding why they don’t work is hard. In this post, we’ll talk about data races, why they’re a problem, and how they arise in Go programs.
What are the best Go books in 2026?
What are the best Go books this year? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.
That mockingbird won't sing: a mock API server in Rust
Faking it till you make it isn’t always the best strategy in life, but it can be a useful one in software engineering. Here’s an easy way to create a local HTTP server for testing Rust API clients.
When doomed stubs attack: blockchain voting and proof of work
If cryptocurrencies aren’t managed by any central authority, what’s to stop anyone just printing themselves some money and spending it on pizza? The answer, excitingly, is “math”.