Tips, insights, and updates for developers improving their English.
When a Taipei startup hired international developers, all meetings switched to English overnight. A frontend developer shares what helped.
A Japanese developer explains how open-source pull requests became the most effective English learning resource.
An Indian developer explains L1 interference — how direct translations from Hindi create confusing English phrases in tech communication.
How improving commit messages from 'fixed bug' to descriptive, conventional messages changed how the team perceived my work.
How a developer went from blindly Googling every error message to understanding them directly — and why it made debugging twice as fast.
A developer's story of silently not understanding code review acronyms like LGTM, PTAL, and WIP — and how learning them changed the way they worked.
How a Brazilian developer learned that tone in async communication is invisible — and why directness in English doesn't mean what it means in Portuguese.
A Korean developer's honest account of struggling through daily standups in English and the phrases that eventually made it feel natural.
A developer's journey from overly formal PR descriptions to natural, effective code review communication in English.
A backend developer shares the story of mispronouncing 'char' during a technical interview and what it taught him about developer English pronunciation.
Chinese developers frequently mispronounce cache, daemon, and OAuth. Here are 20 tech terms with correct IPA, common mistakes, and tips from DevGlish.
Japanese engineers often rely on katakana approximations for tech terms. Here are 20 words with correct English pronunciation and tips from DevGlish.
Korean developers often mispronounce cache, daemon, and queue due to hangul approximations. 20 tech terms with correct pronunciation and tips.
Master PostgreSQL pronunciation: from Ingres to Postgres to PostgreSQL. The official stance and what the community actually says.
Common programming terms that confuse even experienced developers. Learn the correct IPA, etymology, and why you've probably been saying them wrong.
Master the pronunciation of Kubernetes, nginx, Terraform, and other critical DevOps tools. Includes audio guide and common mistakes.
The SQL pronunciation debate explained: IBM's 'SEQUEL', Oracle's 'sequel', and why MySQL decided differently.
GIF pronunciation has sparked debates for decades. Here's the definitive answer — and why both sides have a point.
Generic language apps miss what developers actually need. Here's why DevGlish exists.