There are few things more motivating than genuinely loving the team you work with. If you don’t enjoy your colleagues, you’ll burn out faster, be less productive, and find much less satisfaction in your work. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s how to help build the greatest dev team you’ve ever been on.

After 12 years of contracting, I’ve decided it’s time to go permanent. This isn’t about the state of the market or personal burnout; it’s that my career has changed. I’ve gone from hands-on delivery to shaping systems, mentoring teams, and driving long-term strategy. That kind of work needs continuity, and contracting just doesn’t make as much sense for it anymore.

There was a time when writing beautiful code was the goal, where naming was poetry and indentation was sacred. But let’s be honest: it wasn’t about performance or outcomes. It was about making life easier for (and impressing) other developers. That era is fading fast, replaced by a world where results matter more than elegance and code isn’t written for humans anymore.

We're on the brink of a major shift. For decades, the stereotype of the ideal developer has been the same: someone who lives, breathes, and dreams in code. They memorise algorithms, wrestle endlessly with syntax, and churn through lines faster than anyone else in the room. And for a long time, that's been enough. But those days are ending.

Development recruitment is broken and not suitable for the current era. It focuses on the ability to regurgitate memorised facts under pressure and does not focus on things that actually matter. Here's how to do it better.

If you've ever found yourself frustrated with the output of AI-assisted IDEs like Cursor or Windsurf, then I might have some bad news for you. Are you sitting down? Because you're probably not gonna like this: It's kinda your own fault.

As abstractions become less necessary, we might be heading toward a future where writing code by hand is the exception, not the norm. When that happens, what happens to the tooling we all love so much?

The rise of LLMs, particularly agent-based (agentic) IDE's like Cursor and Windsurf has changed the face of coding forever and it's not going anywhere, so you may as well get on board.

If you are new to the dev industry, it can be daunting. I’ve been doing this for 19 years, so here are my top 5 tips.