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Dominik Michelitsch
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Pinned: Reverse Engineering for Software Developers

I’m currently writing a series called Reverse Engineering for Software Developers.

The goal is simple:

To treat reverse engineering not as a niche skill,

but as a core part of real-world software development.

The series focuses on:

  • understanding software through behavior, not intent
  • how reverse engineering changes design decisions
  • modding (Project Zomboid) as applied systems thinking
  • debugging when assumptions, order, and control break down
  • why every long-lived codebase becomes a reverse engineering problem

📚 Series overview

  1. Reverse Engineering Teaches You What Software Actually Is
  2. Reverse Engineering Changes How You Design Software
  3. Modding Is Reverse Engineering Under Constraints
  4. Reverse Engineering as a Debugging Mindset
  5. Every Codebase Eventually Becomes a Reverse Engineering Problem

If you work on systems that evolve, accumulate assumptions,

or outlive their original context, this series is for you.

New readers usually start with Part 1.

I will add one part every day so feel free to follow :)

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