We’ve all heard the term “rockstar developer.” For many, it conjures images of a reckless “cowboy coder”—a lone wolf who moves fast, breaks things, and leaves a trail of messy, unmaintainable code for the rest of the team to clean up. The tech industry narrative has soured on this archetype,…

Focus is hard. Building software is usually really intricate, but also fairly tedious. There are a lot of tools to help get past the tedium nowadays, but we tend to lose sight of the fundamentals in favor of what we feel like we should do. We copy what we see…