Observations across the software engineering industry.
Visit blog.pragmaticengineer.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Sep 2017 – Jun 2026
Tech Industry & Business 24Career & Management 23Software Engineering 7Society, Policy & Culture 4Life, Learning & Writing 4Systems & Performance 2
I have been coaching several experienced software engineers to further grow professionally, since transitioning [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/things-ive-learned-transitioning-from-engineer-to-engineering-manager/] to being an engineering manager. I have noticed a few skills that people often underestimate the…
I'm a full-time creator. With remote work becoming more common in tech, I get more messages from people asking: how can they do what I do?
Since leaving Uber a year ago, in October 2020, I've been making a living from writing - one with comparable income [https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1449075825329020932] to when I was employed. None of this would have happened if I did not start to write this blog several years ago.
The year was 2007. I was a college student attending a 24-hour hackathon where we had had to build something on top of live trucking data. We were given an API that sent GPS and other metadata for 100 trucks roaming across Europe, the data updating every five seconds.