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Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and…

Earlier in June, attackers took control of more than twenty thousand Instagram accounts, including the dormant Obama-era White House account, without writing an exploit or guessing a single password. They…

Why Does React Even Care About Keys? To understand this, we have to look at how React handles the screen. React uses a Virtual DOM to keep track of what…

Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • Antithesis –…

A surprising 172,000 jobs added in May tells one story; the frozen hires rate and the unemployed waiting longer for work tell another. June 5, 2026 Key points: Employers added…

I attended the first Pragmatic Summit early this year, and while there host Gergely Orosz interviewed Kent Beck and myself on stage. The video runs for about half-an-hour. I always…

It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely…

Press enter or click to view image in full size always has been; always will be A lone senior developer with no spec, no tests, and no code review ships…

Technology changes faster than almost any other industry. The half-life of technical skills continues to shrink. Frameworks, cloud platforms, AI tooling, and cybersecurity practices evolve so quickly that knowledge gained two…

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and…