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We, software crafters, naturally tend to distance ourselves from users led by excitement for technological cycles and innovation. Our industry is full of examples. For instance, the crypto trend is an excellent example of that. No one can o…
More and more, we see open-source projects being backed by investment rounds . It's positive for the projects because they can innovate faster and sustain themselves by paying people to work on it full-time, making money one of the main dri…
I'm a firm believer that shaping products as developer platforms is an amazing idea to let developers from all over the world make your product diverse . Otherwise, you have products like Facebook and Apple 's that work great in California…
I recently came across a tweet that suggested me to undo my blog post on Web3 after sharing some bad things I'd uncovered in the technology. I couldn't understand why an undo and not a follow-up . I see opinions as alive entities that evolv…
I migrated this blog to SvelteKit . I did it to consolidate everything I had learned about the framework, and be able to SSR static pages with dynamic content. For example, I'll be able to collect data from external sources like GitHub and…
In a simplistic way, we can see web frameworks as convenient functions that take your app as input and return deployable artifacts. GatsbyJS generates static HTML, CSS, and Javascript that platforms like Netlify know how to deploy. Rails ge…
It's been a while since I started reading more about personal finances and investments. My primary motivation was to escape the tempting treadmill of scaling up costs as the income increases. It's never late to learn about it, but the earli…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role React plays when building a web app. Companies like GitHub and Shopify , both very successful software companies, introduced React recently in areas where it makes sense . This led me to the qu…
Over time, my relationship with the Internet has turned me into a dopamine-dependent. I’ve reached a point when my body often has a physical presence in the offline world throughout the day, but my brain wanders in the online space. Should…
As you might know, I’m a curious person. That leads me to reading about challenges tech companies run into and the solutions that they come up with, and connecting them with similar problems with the aim of forming mental models. Why React…
If we think about how tech companies build products these days, we'll realize many present a single model that they push onto the world . Companies like Facebook and Twitter model for how social interactions happen on the Internet. Others l…
As some of you might know, we’ve been in Barcelona looking for a flat to relocate from Berlin for the past few weeks. A few things happened during the COVID19 pandemic that prompted us to think about whether we wanted to stay in Berlin long…
Every time I try to set up Omniauth on a Rails codebase I run into the same issue: Not found. Authentication passthru And every time I have to spend a fair amount of time understanding what's causing the error. Luckiy it won't have anymore…
One of the things that I appreciate as a developer is having a consistent experience across projects . As you probably know, this is often not the case when running a project locally. Some ask you to run yarn run ios . Others prefer an exec…
As part of building Chimera , an AppleOS tool for capturing networked knowledge, thoughts, and ideas, I encountered an issue trying to set up Neo4j on an M1 laptop (i.e. arm64 architecture) . It turns out that Seabolt , the connector that n…
A while ago, I started reading about the Rust programming language out of curiosity. Many things fascinated me about the language. It has a powerful dependency manager similar to the Swift Package Manager but more thoroughly designed. Unlik…
One of the things that I find the hardest when building open-source software is planning the work . On one side, there are all these new features and improvements that you'd like to build. On the other side, there are PRs to review, tickets…
When building open-source software, getting external contributions is usually one of the most difficult things. Most of the times developers are busy working on their projects, and they are hesitant to devote time to another project. That's…
As you might know, Shopify allowed me to try the people management track and become an engineering manager. I've been doing that for the past two years. Along the process I learned a lot and made so many mistakes and I don't regret having g…
One of the things I like about Shopify is an internal tool called Vault . It's the backbone of the organization. You can find people, navigate the report structure, find answers for your questions, follow projects and share updates with the…