API Surface Architecture and the Limits of AI Tooling Generators By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. Ask an AI code generator to scaffold a REST API endpoint and the output isn’t bad. It’s competent in a […]
How to Choose Between Technologies When All the Comparison Articles Are Wrong By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. You know the drill. You open five tabs, each one swearing it’s the definitive guide to picking a frontend framework, […]
Why the Best Engineering Cultures Are the Ones That Talk About Failure By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. Why the Best Engineering Cultures Are the Ones That Talk About Failure Walk into most engineering orgs and you’ll see […]
The Problem With Tech Tutorials That Teach Syntax Instead of Understanding By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. I’ve been writing code for more than ten years, and I’ve watched a thousand tutorials. Most of them are rubbish. […]
How to Write a Technical Blog Post That Engineers Actually Want to Read By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. Most technical blog posts are landfill. They’re written by people who either forgot what it’s like to learn something hard, […]
Why You Should Read the Source Code Before You Read the Documentation By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. Every engineer has been there. You pull a library to solve a problem, the README looks promising, the API docs […]
Open the Source, Then Maybe the Docs By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. I picked up this habit years ago while wrestling a C library whose documentation promised elegance and delivered riddles. The […]
The Documentation Trap By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. The Documentation Trap I see this play out on software teams all the time. A developer bumps into a problem. […]
Documentation Is a Sales Pitch. Code Is the Contract. By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. Documentation Is a Sales Pitch. Code Is the Contract. I’ve burned months of my life trusting documentation that lied. Not […]
The Difference Between Code That Works and Code That Communicates By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. Most developers I meet stop at the first milestone: making the code run. The tests pass, the feature ships, and […]
Why the Best Code Review Comments Ask Questions Instead of Giving Orders By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. The Code Review Trap: When Precision Becomes Poison I remember a pull request from my early days at a networking […]
How Technical Debt Is a Metaphor That Has Outlived Its Usefulness By Milton Harris on June, 2026. Posted in Uncategorized. Technical debt has been kicking around software engineering since Ward Cunningham first compared it to financial debt back in 1992. […]