Back to Jekyll

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…

Reflecting on 3 years at Shopify

A few days ago, it was my 3rd anniversary at Shopify, and I've got the idea of sharing in a short blog post what are the things that I like from Shopify and that allowed me to grow: Great mission: The company has a clear and realistic missi…

What I like from Ruby and Rails

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…

First thoughts on Sorbet

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…

All you need is tools

In this post I talk about why investing in good tooling is crucial for projects to move steadily.