Tom Smykowski

Why the Cloudflare Outage Should Scare Everyone Who Builds Software On November 18th, half the internet collapsed over a single Cloudflare failure. The outage revealed something bigger: our “decentralized”…

Several happy accidents caused Cloudflare outage, but the biggest reason is that we all use the same service providers tomaszs2.medium.com/why-the-clou...

Angular bidirectional signal forms in v21 are great. No onChange and manual state management. Fantastic!

I Wrote Software Engineering for Vibe Coders — Here’s the Truth the Tech Industry Isn’t Ready For I’ve lately released Software Engineering for Vibe Coders. To give you a better sense of how I think about vibe coding and the ideas…

Most people don’t understand how fast AI will change software.
It won’t replace engineers. It will expose them. The ons who adapt will build billion-dollar products. The rest will argue about tabs and spaces.

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And some books will just make you focus on the characters problems so that your problems become a side quest

Tech debt is one single thing that can tank a vibe coded project. It's because AI can generate debt way faster than a human. Fortunately, software engineering already offers way to prevent it from happening: tomaszs2.medium.com/vibe-coding-...

Exited to announce I just released Software Engineering for Vibe Coders to help non-technical founders get more predictable results from vibe coding! #vibecoding

Software Engineering For Vibe Coders - Ebook, PDF, EPUB - Essential Gu Software Engineering for Vibe Coders: The Essential Guide for Startup Non Technical Founders Turn Your AI-Powered Code Into Production-Ready Software That Scales Are you a vibe coder building the next...

More in my new book : summonthejson.com/products/vib...

How to code review vibe code:

1. Set MR LOC limit
2. Stop review at first major issue
3. Link resources
4. If merged anyways mark as prototype
5. Set up rewrite schedule
6. Make author accountable

I’m curating a few trusted developer tools to feature in my upcoming book Software Engineering for Vibe Coders — a guide helping AI-assisted founders build sustainable software.

If your platform helps founders code smarter, let’s talk about collaboration.

Why PDF Viewers Show Different Page Number From Page Footers? Do you know that feeling when you scroll an ebook, but page numbers in PDF viewer and on ebook pages are misaligned, but you got so…

Page 1: Cover.”
“Page 2: Title.”
“Page 3: Preface.”
The publishing community: How dare you.
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I Wrote A 128-Page Book For Vibe Coders To Teach Them About Software Engineering I’m extremely thrilled to announced I’ve published my new ebook. Software Engineering for Vibe Coders is a book that addresses the problems…

Software Engineering For Vibe Coders - exited to announce my new book. You can read the announcement here: tomaszs2.medium.com/i-wrote-a-12... #vibecoding #programming

Collins Dictionary Word Of The Year In 2025 was just announced to be vibe coding. I can't agree more. That's why I wrote the original Vibe Coding Bible ebook!

Angular 21 Kills ngClass And Introduces Signal Forms. The Final Solution Of The Form Problem With 21 update Angular team introduces new, streamlined form management and a lot of improvements that will land in Next.js after we the…

Have you already tried signal based forms in Angular 21? It will be released just in two weeks! tomaszs2.medium.com/angular-21-k...

My alarm clock allows 3 snoozes by default.
That tiny design choice says a lot:
someone, somewhere, decided to enforce discipline — on strangers.
When building products, ask:

> “Are we shaping pppl behavior or just leaking our corporate culture into design?”
That’s the line between good and bad UX.

So it would be all regarding having a backup system in a totally separate cloud...

Every time you want to choose UK in a dropdown

5 Best Vibe Coding Patterns Photo by Startup Stock Photos…

5 Vibe Coding Patterns for software engineers and non tech vibe coders
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If a company offered you $10k to buy all of your data incl. photos, videos, emails, communication, locations, everything you did on digital devices etc. would you sell it?

Do you think it makes sense to use a code prettifier while vibe coding?

- We're looking for someone with long experience in software engineering
- That's great. Here's a picture of me implementing moral code for Jesus

100 lines of poorly vibe coded code generates 3 WD of tech debt

100 lines of poorly vibe coded code generates 3 WD of tech debt

Still not there yet #chatgpt5

Head disassembled, joined Devin, got Claude 4. A regular day in AI IDE. Mixed feelings, but optimistic #windsurf

I'd rather see Windsurf alliance with OpenAI rather than Google. But mostly I'd see Windsurf be independent being able to freely offer everything what's best for coders

Python Is Going Free-Threaded: The End of the GIL Is Near in Python 3.14 How the time passes. It was March 2024 when I’ve reported Python is moving towards being multithreaded, and we have some new news in this…

Hell will turn cold soon. Python is going be free threaded with performance improvements: tomaszs2.medium.com/python-is-go...

Building a startup is 99% doing stuff you don't necessarily wanted to do so you can do that 1% that you thought was fun

The Invisible Promotion: How to Go From Mid-Level to Senior Developer You’ve been coding for years, but something feels off. You’re not a junior anymore, but you’re not sure you’re senior either. Titles are…

Stuck in the mid-level developer zone? 🧱
Not sure how to break into senior?
This guide shows you the mindset & actions that get you promoted — without waiting for permission.
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What’s New in C# 14: Extension Members, Backing Fields, and Null-Conditional Assignments C# 14, released in April 2025 with .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2022 support, brings several developer-friendly improvements.

C# 14 introduces powerful new features: extension members, backing fields, and null-conditional assignments — making your code cleaner and more expressive.

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#dotnet #csharp #programming