Everything can be made up for—except modularity
Good modularity lets you tolerate crummy code locally and fix it later without breaking everything.
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No, QA is not your designated tester
No, QA is not your designated tester. “QA” is a process, not a role: its real job is to help the team grow.
How my articles are born, develop, and are rewritten
Behind the scenes of my weekly writing: ideation, the writing process, the role of AI, and next steps for these articles.
How much is a day’s work worth?
When the client’s needs become clear over time, the daily rate is the most appropriate solution. But how do you determine it?
A Hammer Named Claude Code: Choose Your Nails Wisely
LLMs are our new hammers. But the heart of the field isn’t a nail: that’s where we need to keep our focus.
AI brain fry
More AI, more code to review, more context switching, more fatigue: the limit is the human factor.
LLMs and Agility: Why Pit Them Against Each Other?
Just because we develop faster, does that mean we no longer need Agility? This idea betrays a misunderstanding of what Agility is.
Don’t Repeat Yourself… but just a little bit anyway
It’s better to have a little intentional duplication than premature abstraction that mixes business rules that have no business being together.
The Embarrassing Questions
Your favorite LLM is the perfect companion to ask all your embarrassing questions. But then again, is there really any reason to be embarrassed when you don’t know something?
LLMs: You’ve become a manager, whether you like it or not
Coding with an LLM is like managing a team: you have to balance delegation and move forward in small steps.
I blocked someone who was right
Sharing your ideas on LinkedIn exposes you to aggressive comments. How should you deal with trolls?
The LLM Generation: Tough Times for Juniors
For a young developer who has everything to learn, LLMs are false friends because they discourage the effort to learn.
Bug, error, or nominal case: what is the business intent?
When should you throw an exception, return an error, or model the absence of an error? The answer lies in the business intent.
Design tokens: the grammar of your Design System
Before components, tokens. How to structure a coherent Design System using a well-thought-out token architecture.
Hexagonal Architecture: Do We Still Need an ORM?
An ORM lets you build the domain on entities it exposes, which are directly mapped to the database. This is the opposite of Hexagonal Architecture.
What if your TypeScript model prevented inconsistent states?
TypeScript is often used only superficially. This is particularly true for Union Types, which help prevent inconsistent states.
You’re using exceptions incorrectly
Exceptions are not meant to handle predictable errors. Discover the Result type, an alternative to try/catch.
Testing Randomness: A Textbook Example of Property-Based Testing
PBT verifies that a business invariant is always satisfied regardless of the parameters and the return value of the function being tested.
Five years already! My journey as an independent consultant.
Reflections on five years of independence: intellectual stimulation, learning, writing, and freedom.
Radicalism as a guiding principle
Radicalism is the refusal to distort words—and thus the refusal to compromise. It is divisive, of course, but that is for the best.