Self-taught senior SWE @ Spotify for ~10 years. I share practical software engineering for beginner/intermediate devs: systems, habits, careers, and “what I wish I knew earlier.” GitHub 👇 github.com/simeg

Went from hearing about AI to using AI every day for work and personal things in 6 months 🤯 What's your favorite AI tool? I'm leaning towards Claude.

Chrome only keeps 90 days of history. That’s a joke. I got tired of losing old tabs, so I built Chrome History Exporter — it automatically pulls your cross-device Chrome history and makes it searchable locally with Alfred. Check it out 👇 github.com/simeg/chrome-hist…

I feel more like a product manager than an engineer working with Claude CLI. I tell it what features I want and it does the engineering for me. I have mixed feelings about it.. 😄

Hey friends—this is a non-tech post. Been away from X a few years battling depression. I finally beat it. My doctors agree 🙌 Sooo grateful for my partner and friends. Never lost my interest for tech so hoping to be more active here. Looking forward to connecting to you all! ❤️

After 10 years as a software engineer, I wrote the DevOps book I wished I’d had as a beginner: Commit to Cloud. ✅ GitHub Actions ✅ AWS ✅ Real pipelines, not toy examples Perfect weekend project for your future self. Only $10. Learn more 👇 prplcode.gumroad.com/l/commi…

Need progress feedback in Bash? ⚡️ bash-cli-spinners ⏳✨ Don’t just read — watch the spinners live: 👉 simeg.github.io/bash-cli-spi… (+80 spinners demo website) Repo: github.com/simeg/bash-cli-sp…

New: git-x. A grab bag of Git subcommands that should’ve shipped with Git: rename-branch, prune-branches, graph, summary, undo. github.com/simeg/git-x

Been off social a while. Used to blog, now I mostly ship code. Two projects you might like: git-x → Git CLI extensions for smoother workflows github.com/simeg/git-x bash-cli-spinners → Spinners for Bash/Zsh scripts github.com/simeg/bash-cli-sp…

I never understood the jQuery hate 🤔 It offers an improved API for managing the DOM (and more!). It powers A LOT of websites. It's great!

What libraries do you use to test your JavaScript code?

Attention self-taught developers! 👋 How did you learn, and what's your best advice to people who wants to learn?

Why is Tailwind CSS more popular than Bootstrap?

External vs. internal keyboards? ⌨️