The one in which we talk about the differences between when you are building something compared to when you are crafting something.
The one in which I talk about understanding the problem before trying to solve it.
The one where I talk about limiting the scope and polishing the experience when starting something
Reflections on things I wish I had known when I was at the start my career and that I wish I have shared with people around me struggling with their first jobs, first managers and first disappointments.
Some reflections on how it feels to turn 34 years old.
You must use AI when coding. However the way you leverage the assistance will have a dramatic impact on your future as a developer in small and big ways. It pays to be mindful of it.
Keeping notes on what you are working on during the day has some surprising benefits and helps the brain to travel light.
Justifying your failure is the most efficient way to make sure that you don't learn from it. And yet, this is the default response for most of us...
MVP should not be shitty. The meaning of minimal should mostly refer to the scope that is covered in the initial implementation. Let's break this down.
Becoming more productive is one of the rare things in life that is absolutely good. No matter how you spin it, everything else being equal, it is better to be more productive then less. So here are a few thoughts on how to become more productive.
When people around me are talking about shows and getting excited about it, I don't really feel like I am missing out. I often quench my curiosity by asking questions around the show and what makes it a good one and in most cases that is enough.
With the new year starting it is time to take account of the past year, learn from it and see what I can adjust to make the new year even better.
This time I will talk about how and why I decided to change my keyboard layout from QWERTY to Colemak and why you should too.
Let's look at how to (properly) handle the safe area in react native, beyond the simple strategy of slapping a safe area view everywhere.
Sometimes we would like to combine to types into a complete new type. Typescript offers a simple way to do that through intersection types. See how.
There is a common parttern of using useState with an object as its contents. In this article I show (and make a reminder for myself) how to have an object as your state and how to update each part of it individually whenever you need to.
There are many ways to handle authentication when you are building your GraphQL api. Here I describe my current and preferred approach for tackling this while keeping it as simple as possible.
Teams deal with technical debt differently. Sometimes they don't touch until it breaks, some others they activelly manage it. How do you do it?
The impostor syndrome is real and presents itself in many ways. We need to talk about it. We also need to find ways to avoid that it leads us into self-sabotaging and missing oportunities. Here's my rant on it.
After having struggled for a while to make full use of Typescript, ESLint and Prettier with Next.js I finally managed to get it all working and decided to write it up for myself and whoever else finds it useful.
Time to look back at 2021 and reflect on the things I did well, what could have been done better, good times and what to aim for in the year that has started.
What did it take for me to move from a highly paid management job in a large coorporation into a Developer job in a small startup? How did I think about it, how did I prepare myself, how did I approach the job hunt and how did I manage the transition
You cannot be creative. Creativity only exists as a verb. You can do creative instead.
A simple collection of tips and flows that I use every single day in git and github for work, pleasure and profit.