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July 2025

📛 Why most engineers fail at knowledge sharing (6 habits that make you stand out)
Most engineers fail at knowledge sharing, hurting their growth. Learn 6 habits to share knowledge like a senior and stand out in your team.
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Fran Soto
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▪️◼️⬛ How to scale a relational database
Relational DBs struggle at scale. This guide helps you choose the right strategy, from indexing to sharding, without overengineering too soon.
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Fran Soto
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🚀 I won a hackathon building an AI tool. It provided more visibility than 6 months of work.
Stuck in invisible work? See how a 2-day AI hackathon project gave me more visibility than 6 months of backlog tasks, and how you can do the same.
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Fran Soto
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🧠 10 engineering terms that will make you think like a senior
Bridge the gap between junior & senior engineers. Learn 10 key terms for anti-patterns and pitfalls to avoid costly project and code mistakes
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Fran Soto
10

June 2025

⚡ Why Sam Altman gets 10x more done than you
Struggling with focus and slow career growth? Learn how Sam Altman's productivity strategies help software engineers work with clarity and get ahead…
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Fran Soto
6
👋 The 12 practical software engineering concepts that will make you a better developer
Software jargon causing confusion? Learn 12 key engineering terms to boost understanding, improve team communication, & prevent project pitfalls.
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Fran Soto
6
⌛ Don't get left behind. The software engineering trends you absolutely need to know
Struggling to advance your software engineering career? Learn vital culture & method trends, from emerging to must-adopt, to accelerate your…
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Fran Soto
3
🗺️ The 2025 BACKEND DEVELOPER's roadmap: Don't fall behind in tech, master these:
Struggling with backend career growth? This 2025 guide is your strategic roadmap to master essential skills, tech, & practices for faster advancement.
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Fran Soto
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✋ The 17 biggest mental traps costing software engineers time and growth
Bad estimates and flawed project decisions? Uncover 17 hidden thinking errors and learn to fix them for better code and team success
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Fran Soto
8

May 2025

🛑 Software engineers should stop planning their days and start planning their lives.
Most engineers stay stuck because they confuse planning with strategy. Learn how to shift from busywork to real progress with a personal career…
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Fran Soto
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Daniil Shykhov
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⚡ The software engineers' bottleneck is information intake. How to read and process information faster
Engineers struggling with information overload? This guide shows how AI revolutionizes reading, helping you process docs & code 10x faster for deeper…
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Fran Soto
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