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In today’s issue:
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The Git feature I ignored for 6+ years became essential the day I started running agents.
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Claude ate 1/4 of my job
Hey, it’s Fatou.
In today’s issue:
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What i’d do if i were job-hunting as a junior frontend dev in 2026
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How Github made their diff lines more performant
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A comprehensive system design course
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29 React Codebase Red Flags from a Senior Frontend Developer
I’ve been writing React code as an engineer at Palantir for the past 6+ years.
These are the 29 red flags that tell me a React codebase is going to be painful to work with.
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If You're Shipping Code and the Hardest Part Is Still Untouched, That's Not Progress. Three Ways to Catch Yourself
I once pushed the hardest part of a project to the end because I wasn’t ready for it.
The project required GraphQL. I wasn’t familiar with it. So I kept building the parts I already knew: the components, the layout, the small PRs that felt...
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You prompt it to fix it. Now something else breaks. Three rounds later, you give up and revert everything. (It gets worse when you forgot t...
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