Deterministic tool versions across environments with Mise

Non-deterministic tool versions across environments is a common source of headaches in development teams. In this post, I share how Mise can help you solve it.

I'm allergic to complexities

I like understanding complexities to simplify them. In this post, I share some examples of complexities that I'm intentionally avoiding because they are complex and therefore not fun.

Starting therapy next week

2023 was a year of many challenges in my life. Next week I'm going to start mental therapy with a psychologist.

Open-source and the imposter syndrome

In this post, I talk about how I'm feeling about my contributions to the open-source community.

Type safety but at which cost?

Type safety, while important, can be overrated and lead to over-engineering. In this post, I share my thoughts on the topic.

I'm sick

Cieza, my hometown, is a beautiful place, but it's also a toxic environment that makes me sick. In this post, I reflect on my connection with this city and the Spanish culture.

JavaScript-owned state and accessibility

WAI-ARIA attributes are a great layer to persist application state and make the website accessible. However, the convenience of JavaScript APIs to store state makes them store all the state in JavaScript, making the websites less accessible.

What if XCTest a concept akin to Elixir's processes?

Erlang processes are a powerful concept that allows you to mock dependencies without introducing dependency injection. In this post, I share my thoughts on how XCTest could adopt a similar concept.

Implicitness in Xcode and SPM. Why Apple?

Apple embraced implicitness in some areas of the build system, and it's causing headaches to developers. In this post, I share my thoughts on the topic and how we are planning to address it in Tuist.

Learning to love the problem and not the solution

We engineers are vulnerable to getting attached to solutions instead of problems. In this post, I share my experience with this and how I'm trying to change it.

What I expect from a knowledge management app

In this post, I share what I expect from a knowledge management app.

Swinging back to positivity

2023 was a year full of micro-traumas that led me to a negative mindset. In this blog post, I talk about how I'm working on swinging back to positivity.

Swift Packages default to supporting all platforms

Swift Package Manager defaults to supporting all platforms when they don't specify any. This is a problem for tooling like Tuist that integrates Swift Packages as Xcode project targets.

Open-sourcing the lightning_css Elixir package

In this blog post I talk about the motivations that led me to build and open-source lightning_css, an Elixir package to bring a more advanced CSS bundler to Elixir and Phoenix projects.

On mental health

In this blog post I open myself about recent mental breakdowns and how I'm dealing with them.

3 package managers + 2 build tools = One big mess

I shared a bit of a reflection on what are the issues with current Apple's tooling touching on some of the points that I presented in my Swiftable 2023 talk.

Peeling layers

This blog post contains a recent reflection over the often over-abstracted web platform, and how powerful it's become, making many of the normalized abstractions feel unnecessary.

Ensuring a smooth workshop experience

In preparation for a workshop that I'm conducting in Swiftable (Buenos Aires), I came up with an idea to ensure a smooth experience following the workshop

Balancing mastery and sustainability

Juggling roles in Tuist, from coding to community support, taught the delicate balance between mastery and sustainability in open-source projects.

Dear Bitrise

Read my personal take on Bitrise's actions against Tuist, and how we're rallying as a community to uphold our values and vision.