Jose M. Valera RealesEngineering Manager at Kombo
Building software, teams, and ideas.
15+ years building software, 5+ leading teams. Still writing code daily. I share what I learn about software and leadership, and build websites for businesses and independent professionals.
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01
The Path to Seniority in Software
How to become a Senior Software Developer?
02Effective Pair Programming
Embracing quality practices in your engineering culture
03AI Gives You Speed, Not Quality
The human factor in the age of vibe-coding
04The Beauty of Leadership
Team Lead? Tech Lead? What is leadership and what is not?
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Meditations
The private notebook Marcus Aurelius wrote for himself while running an empire.
The Art of Being Happy
Schopenhauer's 50 rules for practical happiness, built on avoiding suffering rather than chasing pleasure.
Notes from Underground
A bitter, hyper-conscious man retreats from society to wrestle with free will, spite, and the stubborn irrationality of human nature.
Broken Money
Lyn Alden traces monetary history through a technological lens, from commodity money to fiat to Bitcoin, and why the system fails.
Tools I build and give away
Free and open source.
Phel
GitHub stars: 536 A Lisp that compiles to PHP. Functional programming meets PHP. Write expressive, immutable code with macros, pattern matching, and a REPL.(ns app) (defn greet [name] (str "Hello, " name "!"))
bashunit
GitHub stars: 441 Testing framework for Bash. Write tests for your bash scripts with a simple, expressive syntax. Assertions, mocking, snapshots, and more.function test_sum() { assert_equals 4 "$(sum 2 2)" }
agnostic-ai
GitHub stars: 27 One spec, every AI CLI. Write agents, skills, rules, and hooks once. It generates the native files that 25 AI coding tools read.name: conventional-commits globs: "**/*" Use Conventional Commits.