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Hey everybody!
This week we’re breaking down what makes dev blogs actually worth reading, comparing Gemini 2.5 Pro to Claude 3.7 for coding, digging into real job market data for front-end/full-stack roles, and unpacking a wild bug story from a former Google engineer.
Let’s dive in!
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✏️ How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
Some Dev’s quit blogging because no one reads their posts, but the problem isn’t their ideas, it’s how they write them. In this post Michael Lynch, a blogger who pulls 300k+ readers a year, breaks down the common mistakes that kill good blogs and how to fix them.
⚔️ Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison
Google just dropped Gemini 2.5 Pro on March 26, and it's making big claims, best in coding, reasoning, everything. Claude 3.7 Sonnet, is already pretty great. But after testing both, Gemini 2.5 Pro takes the win, better coding, massive 1M token context window (vs. Claude’s 200K), and it’s free.
📊 The state of the front-end and full-stack job market
Curious about which dev skills are actually in demand, not just popular? I came across a post where someone scraped and analyzed 595 job listings to find out. They built a tool to extract tech and pay info from listings, avoiding LLM guesses and sticking with plain text matching. The dataset leans toward startups in the US and Europe, but the insights on tech demand, especially for full-stack and React/Next.js, are insightful.
🐛 Former engineer at Google shares the hardest bug he ever debugged
While working on the Google Docs team, Jacob Voytko spotted a mysterious fatal error during bug triage, Chrome-only, no clear trigger, and barely any stack trace. It didn’t line up with a release, and users weren’t complaining en masse, but if it was real, it was bad. Debugging it was tricky, but his team had to dig deep into browser-specific behavior to trace it back. Here’s the story.
🇮🇳 The 500 Million Worker Problem
India’s long-touted demographic dividend may be under threat, as new analysis warns that AI could derail the country’s path to economic superpower status. With 500 million young Indians set to enter the workforce, the assumption has been that they’d fuel growth, but Bernstein analysts say AI could erode the very jobs that made this possible. At risk: a $350B services export sector and millions of high-paying roles.
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Asking Good Questions Is Harder Than Giving Great Answers.
Google released Gemini 2.5, their most intelligent model yet (isn’t that how it’s supposed to work).
The State of Vue.js 2025 report has been released.
We're all WRONG about Tech certifications
There are currently over 1 million people worldwide who hold at least one AWS certification. A million people!
Why, then, should anyone get certified? Well in this video I want to talk about why I think we're wrong on why we think certifications are important, and what purpose they really serve instead.
Until next week,
Travis.
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