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Reading Other People’s Code — How to Do It Faster Than You Wrote Your Own

2026-05-24 by Piotr Karasiński
Strategy for reading other people's code — terminal showing git log, grep TODO/FIXME, ctags, and entry point to call graph approach

Reading other people’s code separates juniors from seniors. Most developers read code like a novel — and get lost. Learn to read systematically: entry points, callsites, grep before LSP, git as a navigation tool.

Categories Developer mindset Tags mindset, problem solving, programming, reading code Leave a comment

Why Most Developers Debug Wrong — Debugging Like a Developer

2026-05-302026-05-22 by Piotr Karasiński
Debugging methodology with gdb backtrace, strace memory analysis, and Hypothesis to Reproduce to Prove workflow on Arch Linux

Debugging like a developer means thinking, not guessing.
Most engineers debug by trial and error — that’s gambling
with production code. Learn how to form hypotheses, find
root causes, and stop chasing symptoms.

Categories Developer mindset Tags debugging, mindset, production, programming Leave a comment
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