This story was originally published in my blog and reached hacker news front page, click here to check the discussion pragmatic **/præɡˈmæt.ɪk/** adjective solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules — Cambridge Dictionary based on practical…

This story was originally published in my blog and reached hacker news front page, click here to check the discussion A lot is discussed on how to do agile, if a given company or framework even is agile, if you should use sprints or Kanban, Scrum or XP, if agile…

From unit tests to formal specification — Originally published on my blog Software is famously known to have flaws, good practices and automated tests have helped us reduce issues, but most of the industry pretty much gave up on the idea of having software completely free of bugs, instead we moved our strategy to delivering early and…

I give you $25, then I tell you that you can bet any amount of that and you have 60% chance of getting double of it, or 40% of losing the amount. You can repeat this process how many times you want. Seems like a very good deal, right? It’s…

Quickly search for code snippets from wherever you are, no need to switch to the browser and disrupt your flow A long time ago I used to call myself a Ruby Developer, in an attempt to escape the boring languages I was being taught at college, like Java, C, VisualBasic…

Nowadays there are projects like Elm which gives you zero runtime exceptions by enforcing very strict types, also TypeScript, Flow and PureScript that push you in this direction. But what if we went through the opposite way? Never break the code, not because we have a very strict language, but…

The two terms that got more popular in recent years, and as I started reading about antifragility, I noticed some issues in the way we do software nowadays. The microservices architecture is a very resilient architecture, when a service has an outage the other ones can keep going about their…

Do you remember bookmarks? Do you still use them? How do you organize your bookmarks? I organize it like this: Yes, everything is under Other Bookmarks, or under Bookmarks Toolbar, whatever, I don’t organize them, I have just too much for it to be worth organizing, and that’s because of…

When you do agile you don’t want to have silos, people learned long ago that having a separate UX team, then a frontend team, then a backend team, does not work well, ideally you want to split your product not by technical division, but by business area or product, and…