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I recently changed my stand in regards to the technologies that I use when building software. In particular, I decided to minimize the amount of Javascript that I use in my projects. In my experience, Javascript is usually synonym of indire…
Over the past two years, I've been engineering manager at Shopify . I managed the Mobile Tooling and React Native Foundations teams over here. I'm grateful that Shopify allowed me to experience what being a manager is like. I learned that p…
A while ago, and inspired by Facebook's internal tooling, we added a new command to Tuist, tuist focus . As it names says, it's intended to be used when you want to work on a given target. If you have a project of, let's say 300 targets, yo…
One of the things that I struggle a lot with these days is focus . Because of that, I realized I cannot longer do deep and focused work. I spend my days context-switching all the time, and although I've got used to it, I don't like it. Ther…
As we are approaching the release of Tuist 2.0, I started thinking what's next for the project. The focus until 1.0 was around project generation. We provided developers with a graph-based project generation that abstracts away Xcode's intr…
As you probably know, I started building Buildify , an open-source and AGPL-3-based tool for deployments. Like I did with Tuist , I'm in the process of building mental models around the business domain. It's one of the hardest steps, and th…
I recently had to set up a React frontend for a Rails app, and I decided to use ViteJS instead of Webpack . What's interesting about ViteJS is that in development, it uses ES modules instead of smashing all your Javascript into a single fil…
I became weirdly excited for Rust lately. It's a programming language that I've been planning to learn for some time and I finally set out to learn it. It's just the beginning of my learning process but I have to say I like the openness of…
I’ve been using TailwindCSS a lot lately. I like the fact that styles are contained within the HTML elements through classes. You can copy and paste an element styled with Tailwind and you can be certain it’ll look the same. Unlike other st…
Writing a project's documentation is not as exciting as coding, but over the years I got to understand the key role of documentation in the developer experience. Shopify for instance has a team dedicated to maintain our internal documentati…
Yesterday, while reading about Rust and its package manager, Cargo , I realized how diverse the list of Crates (packages) for building CLIs is compared to Swift, and made me think about the connection between that and how Rust and Swift are…
I often wonder why Apple continues to build features that are closed into Xcode, for example Swift Package Manager's integration. While some developers might see that as something positive, because that means it can be seamlessly integrated…
When looked from the consumer standpoint, open source often reads as software publicly available that I can check out, use, and improve. However, there’s more than that. In a world where everyone seems to be obsessed with building the next…
Yesterday, we announced that Tuist has now stats that allows us to understand how users use the tool and therefore, invest our time working on Tuist more wisely. As expected, there were some negative reactions to this: Oh! I’m glad that I c…
Having seen Shopify acting as an e-commerce platform that developers can extend made me think whether the same idea would be applicable to Tuist. What if instead of us trying to codify all different workflows and configurations, we gave dev…
I think there are a lot of similarities between Tuist and JS bundlers. First, they both are functions that take input and return an output. In the case of a JS bundler, it takes Javascript or any variation of it, and converts it into Javasc…
The more I work with Javascript and Ruby, the more I realize how empowering it is to design your workflows. Having worked with Xcode and Swift for many years, I was used to Apple dictating your working style. You need to debug an issue? Thi…
One of the things that I noticed when building tools for developers, either through Tuist or my work at Shopify, is that we developers tend to get incredibly excited about what our new idea would enable, and put the need or problem aside. I…
It's common to see developers wondering why they should use Tuist instead of the Swift Package Manager (SPM) for modeling their projects. I think it's normal. It happened to me a few times too. Some of them even made me wonder if I should c…
I've recently spent a lot of time in Tuist tackling technical debt. It'd been a while since the last time I have to pause some other work for weeks to do something that would be beneficial for the long-term of the project. This time the wor…