Recent writing
I'm a bit reflective today; I guess because we are approaching the end of this so-odd year. Therefore, I'd like to share what has been my preferred tech stack in 2020 and what most likely continue to be in 2021. React for building web front…
I learned by working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails during my time at Shopify that using tools and programming languages that spark joy is crucial for developers' motivation. Even though we developers love to understand complexities, we enjoy…
Tree-shaking is a concept inspired by Javascript and used by Tuist to generate lean Xcode projects that are processed and compile faster.
Bazel and Buck is the solution large companies have adopted to make Xcode build fast. However, it's complex and not accessible to medium and small companies. In this blog post, I share the approach Tuist is taking and how it's inspired by tools the community is already using.
In this blog post, I share my experience building the Tuist community. I talked about the things that have worked well, and the areas where there's still some room for improvement.
I’ve been playing lately with building a web app that complements Tuist with some features that require storing state in a server. Since I have a mobile development background, being familiar with Swift, iOS, and very recently React Native,…
The more I use Ruby and Rails, the more I like it. I’ve played with Typescript lately, and it continues to feel heavy: parenthesis and brackets everywhere, layers on indirection through tools to accommodate the Javascript to the browser or…
Today, I learned about a tool called GraphQL Code Generator turns a GraphQL schema into typed models and utilities for interacting with a GraphQL API. In my case, I'm using it in a React application where I'm using Apollo as the client. Usi…
I recently came across a blog post from Shopify where they share how they are componentize the main Rails application into smaller pieces with clearly defined boundaries and loose coupling between them. This made me think about the uFeature…
One of the things that I struggle a lot with these days is having focus. Despite my several attempts to mitigate distractions, they always find their way to make it into my attention span. The result of that is that I feel stressed, and whe…
I recently started having pairing sessions with developers interested in contributing to open-source; it’s something that usually intimidates people, but that becomes easier if someone guides you through the first contribution. You have a p…
One of the things that I find the most challenging these days when building tools for developers is thinking in terms of problems . Very often Tuist's users ask for features that they have seen in Xcode and that they'd like to see in Tuist…
Yesterday I had a thought-provoking chat with an acquaintance. He thinks that when we connect with someone is because they are a means to achieve goals - for example a business partnership. He was, in fact, trying to do that with me, and I…
Working on building tools for developers has helped me realize that what I like even more than coding is going through the product thinking process. That's why I'm so engaged building Tuist , and recently Galaxy . I used to be excited by pl…
One thing that I noticed after Shopify 's commitment to React Native is that it foster a culture of turning ideas into mobile apps. Doing app development is no longer a thing that only mobile developers do. In hindshight, it was a good comp…
Today I learned about how dependencies are organized by NPM and Yarn. Let's say we have the following scenario of dependencies: A -> B -> C (3.2.1) - A -> C (1.2.3) Javascript dependency managers will structure the dependencies fol…
I'm avoiding opening Twitter these days. It makes me a bit anxious receiving WWDC news through people racing to be the first one to publish the clickbait-type of tweet. I used to have energy to be part of that race and not suffering from FO…
We started using Sorbet to add types to Galaxy's codebase . Types are great to catch type-related issues statically, and prevent them from blowing up on production. This tiny blog-post contains my impressions using it for the first time: So…
One of the things that I find the hardest when working on Tuist these days is finding a good balance between adding new features and tackling technical debt. The most exciting part is always building new things. Indeed, yesterday I came acr…
If you use macOS, you have probably realized many apps have the following UI component on their settings: I had to add one of those to the settings view of Angle , and then I realized that it's not a pre-defined component that you can drag…