Software Engineering

A minimal diagram showing tools and frameworks fading into the background while judgment, domain understanding, and maintainability remain central.

What Senior Developers Should Care About in 2026

Frameworks change, but the hardest problems in production software don’t. This post explores what senior developers should actually care about in 2026 - judgment, boundaries, domain modeling, performance, testing, and communication - long after the hype fades.

A minimal architectural diagram showing layers becoming more complex over time, with arrows highlighting trade-offs between abstraction, simplicity, and maintainability.

The Engineering Trade-offs I Got Wrong

Most engineering mistakes don’t come from ignorance—they come from good intentions applied too early. This post reflects on real-world trade-offs around abstractions, service layers, Clean Architecture, testing, and what I’d do differently today.

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