Deployments, the last mile of delivering software projects. It’s not surprising most developers don’t know how to do deployments, let alone do them properly. It used to be a simple “FTP the files ...

The new release of Go v1.23 brought us this new feature called “iterators”, or “rangefuncs”, or “range-over-funcs”. Nobody knows what the real name is but you might have seen them around the inter...

When someone says “It works on my machine”, the consensus achieved by the Internet Hive Mind is to reply with “we won’t ship your machine to the client”… Ugh, computer nerds think they have a sense...

I took a Compiler Design course during my Masters. We were tasked to create a compiler for a subset of Java, they called it “MiniJava”. It’s somewhat of a “rite of passage” and funnily enough, for ...

TL;DR: I built an In-Memory, Redis-compliant (to some extent, don’t get your hopes high) Key-Value Data Store. It took me a bit over 2 hours, but it works and it sucks at the same time. You can fin...

During my Eurotrip this July, I visited a few cities around Central Europe. One of my destinations was Vienna and as any other boring tourist, I decided to take a stroll at the Schönbrunn Palace, H...

A while ago I started working on a side project, mainly to experiment with some technologies I don’t use on a daily basis. I had been working on a REST API for a while, had it running on a containe...

I was watching this video from Numberphile where Zoe Griffiths tries to memorize the sequence of Red and Black cards. And I was thinking, “this is a good example to explain how compression works”. ...

Yesterday I did a presentation titled “The No Bullshit Guide into Building Software”, as a way to share my experience in the industry regarding what I’ve seen is a good approach when building, or h...

My first editor was Notepad. Not the ++ version, the plain old white one that lacks syntax highlighting, smart indentation, and basically everything you need to write code. All it did was help me c...