Clean Code

Git is not a bag of incantations to memorize for an interview. When I realized Git stores snapshots of files rather than diffs, my fear disappeared. Here are the practical lessons from ten years of botched rebases, atomic commits, and rescuing vanished code.

Most teams use TypeScript as a linter and stop there. Generics that preserve your domain types, a short set of utility types, and the two compiler flags people skip are what turn the compiler into a refactoring tool.

A pragmatic folder split for Laravel that keeps Eloquent at the boundary, respects dependency direction, and avoids over-engineering small CRUD apps.

The pieces that keep a Laravel API clean and safe: form requests for validation, API resources for a consistent response shape, and throttling to protect public endpoints.

Learn when TDD speeds you up versus when it slows you down, and how the three-layer rule keeps tests fast and useful in real projects.

Branching strategy is not the bottleneck, review quality is. Short-lived branches, atomic commits, protected main and automated checks take a five person team to twenty without the arguments.

The questions I actually ask in frontend interviews, and what I am listening for in each answer — from layout behaviour to how a candidate handles a broken build.