Software Engineering

TypeScript 7 has arrived, and the first reaction across the developer world is a mix of excitement, curiosity, and caution. That feels like a healthy response to a release this big. For frontend developers, this is the kind of update that genuinely changes the feel of work. Faster builds, quicker feedback, and lighter editor workflows are not abstract improvements; they make coding more pleasant and less interruptive. This is also a story about reducing friction in daily developer life, not just improving benchmark numbers. In the TypeScript 7.0 announcement, Microsoft says the release can deliver major speedups, with examples from VS Code, Sentry, Bluesky, Playwright, and tldraw showing much faster builds. ...

In How to Stretch Cursor Pro Further, I argued for treating Cursor as the execution layer and routing planning, research, and cheap thinking elsewhere. Ollama got a few paragraphs — enough to explain why local models belong in the pipeline, not enough to actually set them up. This post is the missing piece: install Ollama on Manjaro, pick models for your hardware, and connect local agents that can read your repo, edit files, and run commands without sending code to a cloud API. ...

I use Cursor every day across a lot of codebases — not just one repo. At work that is mostly a large Angular/Nx monorepo plus many smaller web projects. At home it is broader still: playground companion repos tied to omid.dev articles, browser demos on playground.omid.dev, Rust/WASM experiments, Linux tooling, and whatever the next post needs. Agent mode, multi-file refactors, and inline edits are genuinely faster than doing the same work by hand on any of them. ...

In The Zoom-Out, I wrote about the moment a senior developer realizes they don’t know what they don’t know — Corepack, Yarn, Orval, the whole peripheral toolchain that matured while we were busy shipping. That post was about naming the feeling and regaining perspective. Plenty of readers wrote back with the natural next question: “Okay, I get it — the map is huge and I can’t know everything. But how do I actually find the important stuff before I’ve been doing it wrong for five years?” ...

In the fast-paced world of software development, we often find ourselves standing on the shoulders of giants – or more accurately, on top of layers upon layers of legacy code. These aging systems, some decades old, continue to power critical infrastructure in industries ranging from finance to healthcare. While they may lack the glamour of cutting-edge technologies, these legacy systems are the bedrock of many organizations, silently processing millions of transactions every day. ...

In the ever-evolving world of software development, one term consistently stands out: software architecture. Often likened to the architectural blueprint of a building, software architecture lays the foundational structure for an application, guiding its development, maintenance, and scalability. But what exactly is software architecture, and why is it so crucial? Let’s explore the intricacies of this pivotal aspect of software engineering. What is Software Architecture? Software architecture refers to the high-level structure of a software system, encompassing the arrangement of components, their relationships, and the principles guiding their design and evolution. It’s not just about code; it’s about the big picture, ensuring that the software system is robust, maintainable, and scalable. ...