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If you read one good programming book every month, roughly ten pages a day, you’ll soon have a firm... best bookssoftware developerseduardsizov https://sizovs.net/welcome/ Welcome to our tech interview – Eduard Sizov I constantly meet interviewers wondering why so many programmers, including experienced ones, fail even the simplest coding tests. But it’s not programmers... tech interviewwelcomeeduardsizov https://sizovs.net/wolves/ The wolves of IT – Eduard Sizov Recruiters don’t understand IT and software development. They have never worked closely with programmers, have never been part of a development team, and never... wolveseduardsizov https://sizovs.net/frameworks/ Stop learning frameworks – Eduard Sizov We are developers. We need to stay up to date with technology. Every day, we learn programming languages, frameworks, and libraries. 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It’s hard to choose tools nowadays because there are so many of them, and... chooseboringtoolseduardsizov https://sizovs.net/safe/ The safe box – Eduard Sizov Imagine you are a technician. Someone hired you to repair a locked safe box for a fixed price of 100$. You agreed. You open a safe and see 1,000,000$ in it. A... safe boxeduardsizov https://sizovs.net/conferences/ The best developer conferences 2026 – Eduard Sizov Developer conferences are a great place to network with like-minded developers and learn from the best software engineers in our field. Thousands of... best developerconferenceseduardsizov https://sizovs.net/trap/ Job promotion is a trap – Eduard Sizov We love job promotion. The promotion gives us a sense of career progress: junior developer → developer → senior developer → principal developer → architect →... jobpromotiontrapeduardsizov https://sizovs.net/retro/ Welcome to your weekly sprint retrospective – Eduard Sizov It’s your first day at work, and you were invited to join Sprint Retrospective together with your new team. Scrum Master is facilitation the retro: Your... sprint retrospectivewelcomeweeklyeduardsizov https://sizovs.net/about/ About me – Eduard Sizov Eduard Sizov blogging about programming, career, soft skills for experienced developers; at least one new post every month. eduardsizov https://sizovs.net/solo/ On working solo – Eduard Sizov The beauty of solopreneurship is that you can play with different technologies. There are so many things you’ve always wanted to try! 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