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#33 Why You Should Read More Engineering Blogs
One of the early mistakes I made in my career was not reading engineering blogs.
May 9
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#32 How to Write Great Feedback
Most resources online provide a generic advice on writing feedback, like ‘be kind’ or ‘make it useful’.
May 2
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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April 2025
#31 Documenting Software Architecture using C4 Model
Software architecture is a dynamic system that evolves over time.
Apr 25
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#30 Six Traits That Make a Great Founding Engineer
Traits That I Find Most Important In a Founding Engineer
Apr 11
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#29 How to Deliver a Backlog Refinement Session
Most engineering teams use Scrum or Kanban to track their work.
Apr 4
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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March 2025
#28 How Proactive Engineers Operate in Solo, Pair, and Mob Programming
What are they, and when should you use each?
Mar 28
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#27 Why Everyone Is Talking About Vibe Coding
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, introduced a new term called vibe coding to describe how developers can guide an LLM to solve a problem by…
Mar 21
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#26 When to Pay Down Tech Debt
Handling technical debt is a recurring subject among software engineering teams.
Mar 14
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#25 Ten Unspoken Rules in Slack
After working at five different companies that use Slack, I’ve realised that within an engineering culture, there’s also a Slack culture.
Mar 7
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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February 2025
#24 Preparing for Tech Interviews, Part 3: Behavioural
Four things to do to prepare for behavioural interviews
Feb 28
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#23 Preparing for Tech Interviews, Part 2: System Design
Four things to do to prepare for system design interviews
Feb 21
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#22 Preparing for Tech Interviews, Part 1: Coding
Welcome to Part 1 of Preparing for Tech Interviews series, where I share insights and advice gathered from software engineers working at high-growth…
Feb 14
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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