A "professional hygiene" guide for developers

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There comes a moment, in almost every tech career, when you catch yourself thinking: “maybe the problem is me.”

Not because you don’t enjoy coding, but because you feel like you’re always two frameworks behind, three blog posts short, and five certifications trailing whatever your LinkedIn feed suggests you should be. You open Twitter on a Sunday morning and it looks like everyone has contributed to open source, built a side project in Rust, and read the latest architecture book… while you were, I don’t know, living .

Metrics and observability strategy: measuring without fooling yourself

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In almost every team, there’s a magical moment when someone opens a dashboard, points at a green graph, and says: “See? We’re doing great.” Meanwhile, support is on fire, the payments API is going down every other hour, and the development team hasn’t slept properly in three weeks.

The difference between a healthy team and one stuck in that endless theater usually comes down to how they use metrics: as a flashlight to see better… or as a stick to beat each other with.

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A "professional hygiene" guide for developers

Metrics and observability strategy: measuring without fooling yourself