I first started my journey as a software engineer back in 2008 when I joined ADP, building software for building merchants. …

Last week I shared a post on applying for your first role in software engineering, and it got me thinking that researching a company you are interviewing at can be complex, so it deserves its own post. …

The last time I wrote a blog post about getting your first software engineering role was about nine years ago, and a lot has changed in that time, so I thought it was about time I wrote a more up-to-date post sharing my experience both as someone looking for a…

Recently I upgraded to a new MacBook Pro and went through the process of setting up my development environment. As most developers will appreciate, this can be a long experience as you often have to visit the websites for each of your tools, find the correct version and then download…

This week, the new ChatGPT language optimised model from OpenAI was made available to the general public. What really peaked my interest was the sheer number of people talking about it, it appeared to be really impressing people with what it was able to articulately answer. When it comes to…

Many of us have spent the past two or so years working from home significatly more than previously. This has lead us to spend much more time on video calls and to be honest it can become a bit much and leave you absolutely exhausted. While I haven’t found any…

Make your code cleaner by using a ‘switch’ statement instead of using an ‘if’ statement with multiple ‘else-if’ blocks. — Today I saw the Tweet: Who else here forgot that switch statement exists in JavaScript? I honestly did 🐦 Tweet: alicalimli_dev And I instantly felt that I could relate. I often find myself using if statements where I should probably be using a switch statement so I thought I would…

Have Google and Brave’s recent privacy scandals given DuckDuckGo the perfect storm for releasing a new web browser? — Some of you might recently be aware that DuckDuckGo announced a new web browser, launching in private beta on Mac just over a week ago. The differentiator features that they are calling out are: Privacy by default. It is really fast! It is built for security. Today I wanted to…