- The Best Architecture Is the One You Can Actually Maintain Why it starts: Senior, grounded, universal. High respect post.
Backlink to later:
Scalable Trap → “maintainability before scale”
Cloud-Native → “not all cloud ideas are good ideas”
Abstraction → “good architecture hides complexity but doesn’t bury it”
Sets up:
Scalable Trap, Cloud-Native, Abstraction
- AI Won’t Teach You to Think Like a Developer (Unless You Ask It To) Why now: Capitalizes on AI buzz early. Strong philosophical tone.
Backlink to later:
Magic Code → “blind trust in LLM output”
Illusion of Progress → “feeling busy ≠ being smart”
Stack Traces → “thinking like a dev means debugging”
Sets up:
Magic Code, Illusion of Progress, Stack Traces
- Learn to Read Stack Traces – It’ll Change Everything Why now: Super practical. Junior and senior friendly.
Backlink to earlier:
AI Won’t Teach You to Think → “AI won’t help if you can’t debug”
Sets up:
Terminal, Magic Code, Read the Docs
- Why “Scalable” Is a Trap When You Don’t Even Have Users Why now: Logical follow-up to Architecture.
Backlink to earlier:
Architecture → “You probably need boring, not scalable”
Sets up:
Cloud-Native → “cloud hype can fuel the same mistake”
- Stop Thinking Like a Junior Why now: Shift into growth mindset posts.
Backlink to earlier:
Stack Traces → “owning your debugging”
AI Won’t Teach You → “you need to build mental models”
Sets up:
Curiosity, 10x Myth (if split), Docs, Terminal
- Deep Dive: C# Dictionaries and How They Actually Work Why now: Mix it up with technical deep dive. Practical break from philosophy.
Backlink to earlier:
Architecture → “choosing the right tool internally”
Sets up:
Could link to future C# series
- Why Magic Code You Don’t Understand Is a Liability Why now: Shift back to deeper dev thinking.
Backlink to earlier:
AI Won’t Teach You, Stack Traces
Sets up:
Abstraction, Docs, Terminal
- Cloud-Native Doesn’t Mean “Do Everything in the Cloud” Why now: Round out the architectural trilogy.
Backlink to earlier:
Architecture, Scalable Trap
Sets up:
Abstraction → “infrastructure should serve design, not dictate it”
- The One Thing That Matters Most as a Junior Backend Dev: Curiosity Why now: Light, encouraging, and reflective.
Backlink to earlier:
Stop Thinking Like a Junior
Sets up:
Docs, Terminal, Fast Learner (if separate)
- The Illusion of Progress: When AI Makes You Feel Productive but You’re Not Why now: Circle back to your AI critique, but more internally focused.
Backlink to earlier:
AI Won’t Teach You, Magic Code
Sets up:
Abstraction → “don’t hide complexity if you never understood it”
- Read the Documentation Why now: Easy, evergreen, and helpful. Well-earned at this stage.
Backlink to earlier:
Curiosity, Stop Thinking Like a Junior, Magic Code
Sets up:
Abstraction → “Docs often explain the why, not just the how”
- Don’t Be Afraid of the Terminal – It’ll Make You Faster Why now: Light, empowering, good practical closer before philosophical post.
Backlink to earlier:
Stack Traces, Docs, Curiosity
Sets up:
Abstraction → “You’ll see what tools do under the hood”
- Abstraction Why now: Final reflective post, high-level synthesis.
Backlink to earlier:
Architecture, Magic Code, Cloud-Native, Docs, Terminal
Wraps up:
Full arc from practical → mindset → technical → systems thinking