@iamdevloper

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Everyone thinks they are a 10x engineer. Forty questions will tell you what you actually are. 100x.iamdevloper.io

The 100x Engineer Certification

A timed assessment of engineering output. Most candidates do not certify.

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just read about scope creep. while i'm in here i'm also going to add dark mode.
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JavaScript today. read it twice. devdle.iamdevloper.io/p/2026…

Devdle — Daily Dev Puzzle

One global dev puzzle per UTC day. No login, quick to share.

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just found out about the second-system effect. anyway, rewriting it properly this time.
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"I see you've stepped away for a few minutes to make coffee, would be an awful shame if I announced that to your whole company and showed them you're not working" - MS Teams
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judging someone's GitHub contribution activity graph has always felt like a weird hiring metric to me "how much extra job do you do when you're not jobbing"
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TheNewBoston, created by Bucky Roberts
Sonder 🌹 🌟
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Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Stolen tweet being farmed for engagement x.com/sflorimm/statu…
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was it ever?
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is Herman Miller still the best chair ? It's been 11 years since I got mine
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daily Python puzzle. reply with your answer, no cheating. devdle.iamdevloper.io/p/2026…

Devdle #0429 — a Python puzzle

What will be the output of the following code snippet? A Python code puzzle from 2026-10-22. Can you work out what it prints?

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📣 Issue sent and tweeted: digest's out. everything from this week, plus something i wrote before some of you had jobs. buttondown.com/iamdevloper/a…

@iamdevloper: week of 22 October

> iamdevloper --digest --week=2026-10-22 > 7 posts returned â–‹ Structured concurrency has finally landed in JDK 28, which is nice, though most of you will...

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I just started coding with PHP this morning, anything I should look out for?
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just learned about bikeshedding. i do think we should be calling it something else though.
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this whole vibe-coded newsletter debacle feels like a backstage WWE storyline
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Go. harder than it looks. devdle.iamdevloper.io/p/2026…

Devdle #0428 — a Go puzzle

What will be the output of the following code snippet? A Go code puzzle from 2026-10-21. Can you work out what it prints?

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war room: nine people in the call, one reading the logs. fixed in forty minutes, post-mortem takes five weeks.
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I'm gonna tell my grandkids this is who Claude was
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[in a client meeting] sales: we need someone from engineering in this the engineer:
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as my final act of failure I will convert my codebase to Rust
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just read about the planning fallacy. should take me about an hour to fully understand it.
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today's JavaScript one. no googling. devdle.iamdevloper.io/p/2026…

Devdle #0427 — a JavaScript puzzle

What will be the output of the following code snippet when executed? A JavaScript code puzzle from 2026-10-20. Can you work out what it prints?

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just learned about survivorship bias. every successful startup i've looked at does this.
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