Dragon Crowns is where I’ll finally express all those years of fantasy in my head. — Welcome, dear reader! My name is Oren Cohen, and I’m a software engineer and content creator. Before I took the mantle of content creator, I called myself a writer and a blogger. On my writing path, there are many corpses of drafts — all set in the same world —…

It could be the day my content creation journey ends. — There are two ways September 8th could go. Let’s start with the sad one. September 8th will be the day I publish on all social media that I’m letting go of content creation. It will be when I lean into day jobs and stop investing my time into YouTube, my…

But not for the reasons you think. — Twitter has a knack for Doom-Scrolling, and that’s probably how you found this article. Welcome to my humble abode on the internet. You probably want me to explain what I mean by this title, so let’s get right to it. Twitter’s downfall is precisely what Elon wants because we define…

Focus on breadth instead of depth. — Let’s imagine you’re considering two candidates for a Backend Engineer Position. One candidate is super experienced with Python and has deep language knowledge. The other isn’t as proficient in Python but has experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Bash Scripts, and more. Who would you take? …

Your knowledge should not be allowed to rot away in your brain. — If being a software engineer is your day job, you’re probably all too familiar with using git repositories for your day job. You save all of their code. But what about the code you learn to use while on the job? …

I’ve started a substack publication where I’ll exclusively share my daily drafts from NaNoWriMo this year! You can join that here:

Here are some actions you can do on your own to ensure a successful code review session. — Are you new to code reviews? Always feel like you mess them up in one way or another? Today I have some essential tips for you to prepare for code reviews properly. The correct way to prepare for code reviews is to make sure you can review your code first…

Automate some tasks to push high-quality code. — Some of us work in a certain standard of code development. Like automatically lint your code when hitting save. Some of us don’t even know what linting is. I belong to the former. Which group are you on? Regardless of your choice of code standard, you have to try using…

And use them to grow your skills. — One of the behaviors I regret most from my newbie beginning as a software engineer was my reluctance to participate in code reviews. It’s not like I had much choice in the matter, but I didn’t like it. I felt judged. Today I want to talk about why this is…