What I Tell Colleagues About Using LLMs for Engineering

LLMs amplify expertise, they don’t replace it. Here’s what works: planning, context, feedback loops, and building systems that let AI discover bugs.

The 2-Minute Claude Code Upgrade You’re Probably Missing: LSP

Every Claude Code user is running without LSP. That means 30-60s grep searches instead of 50ms precise answers.

Docker Image Was 8.2GB. I Got It to 127MB. Deploy Time: 18min → 40s | by Engineer in the Dark | in Let’s Code Future - Freedium

47 layers. Every RUN command created a new layer. Fixed in 9 lines.

GPX Runner’s data decoded with PHP

Every runner with a sports watch carries a small data recorder on their wrist. After every run, it…

Symfony Messenger: What the Documentation Does Not Cover

Last year we took over a Symfony e-commerce application that was struggling under a combination of high customer traffic and a constant flood of write operations from external systems: product updates, price changes, availability feeds, all hitting the application simultaneously. The Messenger setup was already in place. Messages were being