Being a top coder won't get you far in corporate ladder. Leadership roles require strong soft skills, not just coding expertise. Be a movie director, not the best actor. Focus on team management, meetings & collaboration.

Language of love? Try French! But if you must say 'I love you' in Japanese, it's actually a simple phrase: 'Aishiteru'. Don't @ me.

Private methods are meant to be private. Don't test them directly. Test their observable behavior through public methods instead. This way, you're testing the class's external interface, not its internal implementation.

Started blogging to become a better coder. Chose dev.to for its welcoming platform & no trolls. Write in Notable, publish when ready. Favorite post: "I Applied at a FAANG and Failed

Read more code actively! Download source code, compile & run it, look at unit tests & debug features. Understand how authors implemented a feature & recreate a bare-bones version without looking at the original code.

Reflecting on 2024: change, freelancing, online presence growth, career reflections, AI predictions & writing momentum. Lessons learned & new beginnings for 2025.

Find a "not-mentor" by asking genuine questions, showing interest in them & helping them too. This approach can lead to an informal mentorship without commitment from either side.

14 lessons learned as a software engineer: detach meaning from work, build multiple income sources, always be ready to leave a job & more. Your career is your responsibility, not your employer's. Start refactoring now!

Two new LINQ methods: CountBy() groups elements by key & counts occurrences, Index() projects elements alongside their position in the collection.

Learn 3 essential LINQ methods: Intersect() finds common elements, Union() combines without duplicates, and Except() finds unique elements. Master these set operations for more expressive code.

LINQ DistinctBy method explained: returns unique objects based on one property, useful for complex object collections. Source code breakdown shows how it uses a set to keep track of unique keys.

3 common LINQ mistakes: Use Any over Count, use condition directly with Any, & check for nulls after FirstOrDefault. Fix these to write efficient & safe code!

My first coding job was far from Silicon Valley glamour, teaching me valuable lessons about life, coding & money: don't judge others by their code, collaboration is key, live on half your salary & have an exit plan to avoid burnout.

C# is borrowing features from functional languages like F#, but still lacks Discriminated Unions, a key feature that allows for exhaustive pattern matching and type safety. A proposal for union types in C# aims to address this gap.

Reduce test noise with Object Mothers & builder methods: simplify Arrange parts & setup scenarios, making your tests more readable & maintainable.

5 tips to write better assertions: Follow AAA pattern, separate each part, don't put logic in assertions, have single Act & Assert, use right assertion methods.

Replaced ASP.NET Core BackgroundServices with lite Hangfire, using in-memory storage & single-threaded configuration for recurring tasks & retries.

Don't mix I/O with business logic, keep it at arm's length for cleaner code & easier testing, as per Scott Wlaschin's talk "Moving IO to the edges of your app" at NDC London 2024.

Not every primitive value deserves a Value Object. Use them when enforcing domain rules or performing business operations, otherwise stick with plain values.