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Author: Cesar Aguirre

Street-Smart Coding—30 Lessons to Help You Code Like a Pro (My New Book Is Here)

Post date November 3, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, coding, programming, showdev

One of the most underrated skills to stand out as a coder:

Post date October 29, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, careerdevelopment, softwareengineering

The Most Dangerous Problem With Using AI for Coding

Post date October 27, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In ai, beginners, coding, programming

20+ signs you’re a real programmer (using 2 monitors isn’t one)

Post date October 22, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In discuss, jokes, programming, watercooler

The One Lesson I Wish I’d Known 10 Years Ago to Become a Better Developer

Post date October 20, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, coding, softwareengineering

3 Code Reading Techniques No Course Will Teach You

Post date October 13, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, coding, programming, softwaredevelopment

An oldie, but a goodie!

Post date October 11, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, coding, programming

10+ Pieces of Tech You Use Before Breakfast Without Even Realizing It

Post date September 29, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In discuss, future, tech, watercooler

If someone else talks to customers and writes specs and we, as coders, only turn those specs into code, we’ll be out of business soon. AI will eat us all alive.

Post date September 26, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre

We, Coders, Often Don’t Get To Solve Problems—And That’s Boring

Post date September 22, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, careerdevelopment, workplace

Two Proven Strategies For Faster Code Reviews (Learned From Dozens of Pull Requests)

Post date September 10, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In code review, coding, programming, software engineering, software-development

10 Ways New Coders Can Use AI Without Generating Code

Post date September 8, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In ai, beginners, coding, programming

10 Ways New Coders Can Use AI Without Generating Code

Post date September 8, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In ai, beginners, coding, programming

Is Burnout Inevitable in the World of Tech? Let’s Talk About It

Post date August 25, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In career, discuss, mentalhealth, programming

A Blog Has Been Better for My Career Than a Portfolio

Post date August 18, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, careerdevelopment, writing

How to Demotivate Your Development Team And Make Them Leave (Guaranteed Results)

Post date July 21, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In discuss, leadership, watercooler, workplace

Do you remember the first time you saw a computer? 🤔

Post date July 9, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In discuss, jokes, programming, watercooler

The First Time I Saw a Computer—A Bit of Nostalgia

Post date June 30, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In discuss, jokes, programming, watercooler

9 Subjects I’ve Changed My Mind About as a Software Engineer

Post date April 7, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In career-lessons, coding, programming, software engineering

TIL: Configure Default Values for Nullable Columns With Default Constraints in EntityFramework Core

Post date February 10, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In csharp, dotnet, todayilearned, tutorial

If You Enjoy Coding, Think Twice About Joining the Management Track

Post date January 19, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In career-advice, career-change, management-and-leadership, software engineering, sofware-development

My 2024 in Review—And My Most Read Posts

Post date January 6, 2025
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In career, devchallenge, newyearchallenge, yearinreview

14 Career Lessons After 10+ Years (and Lots of Trial and Error) as a Software Engineer — Rapid Fire Edition

Post date November 11, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, careerdevelopment, softwareengineering

Two New LINQ Methods in .NET 9: CountBy and Index

Post date November 4, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, csharp, dotnet, tutorial

Using Lambda Expressions Doesn’t Make Your C# Code Functional

Post date October 28, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In coding, csharp, functional programming, programming, software-development

How to Handle the Startup Class When Migrating ASP.NET Core Projects

Post date September 30, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In aspnet, beginners, csharp, dotnet

It Seems the C# Team Is Finally Considering Supporting Discriminated Unions

Post date September 9, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, csharp, dotnet, tutorial

I Applied at a FAANG and Failed — Three Interviewing Lessons

Post date August 19, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, careerdevelopment, interview

5 Unit Testing Best Practices I Learned from This NDC Conference Talk

Post date August 12, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, chsarp, dotnet, testing

My Least Favorite Part of C# Evolution: Inconsistency

Post date July 29, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, csharp, dotnet

To the New Developers Looking for a Mentor, Here are 8 Free Lessons

Post date July 22, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, careerdevelopment, mentorship

For Cleaner Domains, Move IO to the Edges of Your App

Post date July 18, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In coding, domain-driven-design, programming, software-design, software-development

Looking For Feedback on One of Your Posts? Leave a Comment!

Post date July 18, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In discuss, learning, watercooler, writing

Once You Touch It, You Own It!

Post date July 15, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, projectmanagement, softwareengineering

Job Security is a Myth: Three Lessons on Layoffs

Post date June 17, 2024
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, career, careerdevelopment

How to use LINQ GroupBy method?

Post date July 6, 2022
Post author By Cesar Aguirre
Post categories In beginners, csharp, dotnet, tutorial

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