Blog
I love writing about stuff that I find interesting and brings some value to my life, so I can share them with you.
Dunbar number
April 02, 2022 - 310 words - 2 minsDunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships, in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.
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Update your team to be more extreme
How can you help your peers to embrace the change?
February 26, 2022 - 566 words -
3 mins
Our profession is constantly evolving; therefore, it demands a non-stop learning process. Embracing the change is not optional in our software industry.
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The power of authority and obedience
Milgram's experiment
January 24, 2022 - 1017 words -
6 mins
Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person, and how easily people could be influenced into committing atrocities. For example, Germans in WWII.
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London vs Chicago
It's an integration, not a choice
November 20, 2021 - 468 words -
3 mins
There are two known schools in TDD: the mockist school (aka Outside-in) and the classicist school (aka Inside-out).
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Red Work vs Blue Work
Managing the two kinds of work
October 21, 2021 - 408 words -
3 mins
“Blue Work” and “Red Work” are concepts that David Marquet describes in his book Leadership is Language. Both require different mindsets and have different languages.
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TDD vs BDD
Design or Workflow?
September 25, 2021 - 650 words -
4 mins
These are two different techniques. The key to each of them is about the mindset and context of what you want to achieve.
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Test-Driven (Development)
What is challenging about it?
August 01, 2021 - 961 words -
5 mins
The complexity here is not about writing tests itself, but the habits that we have to change to create software that is easy to be tested.
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Responsibilities of a Tech Lead
It's not a promotion. It's a role change.
July 01, 2021 - 413 words -
3 mins
The Trident Career Model by Patrick Kua has three tracks. Each track represents where people spend most of their time or energy.
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Conformity experiments
The uncomfortable truth about human nature
June 01, 2021 - 648 words -
4 mins
To what extent do social forces alter people’s opinions? Which aspect of the group influence is most important — the size of the majority, or the unanimity of opinion?
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Open-Source Software
The power of contributing to OSS 🖥
May 03, 2021 - 763 words -
4 mins
What is Open-Source Software (OSS)? What are their benefits? How can you start contributing to any OSS? Pet projects? Knowledge sharing? Why all of these?
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Pull Requests vs Pair Programming
Why choosing when you can have both?
April 01, 2021 - 1183 words -
6 mins
Let’s talk about the benefits of Pull Requests and Pair Programming, and my thoughts on these after some years of experience with them.
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Embrace the change
Who moved my cheese?🧀
March 01, 2021 - 529 words -
3 mins
The book Who moved my cheese? presents a tale inside the main story that consists of 4 characters: two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little persons, Hem and Haw.
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Phel: the Lisp that compiles to PHP
The new functional language. Fully interoperability with PHP 🚀
February 01, 2021 - 614 words -
4 mins
To mock or not to mock
How to escape the mocking hell
January 11, 2021 - 783 words -
4 mins
Mocking is useful, but “what to mock” usually turns out to be a bit more complicated than expected if you don’t treat this carefully.
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Sharing your git patches
Another way of sharing quick suggestions with your team
December 01, 2020 - 447 words -
3 mins
Never use array_merge in a loop
The spread operator to the rescue
November 10, 2020 - 331 words -
2 mins
Using array_merge inside a loop is a performance killer. The spread operator will help you to improve this by flatting the array.
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Typed arrays in PHP
An alternative to the missing feature in PHP: Generics
October 13, 2020 - 653 words -
4 mins
The process itself is the goal
How to focus and have self-discipline
September 08, 2020 - 1013 words -
6 mins
No goal should be an achievement on its own, but the process itself that helps us to go in the direction of these goals.
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Testing Effectively Legacy Code
How to write proper tests to already written code
August 17, 2020 - 919 words -
5 mins
Strict Types in PHP
declare(strict_types=1);
August 09, 2020 - 393 words -
2 mins
In December 2015, PHP 7 introduced scalar type declarations and with it the strict types flag. What is this new feature?
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The art of refactoring
When, how, and why
June 28, 2020 - 544 words -
3 mins
If you see something, in the scope of your current task, that can be easily improved, improve it. And if you have any questions about it, ask.
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Final classes in PHP | Java | Any
Final, or not final, that's the question
June 06, 2020 - 538 words -
3 mins
Clear contracts, isolated side effects, testability, low complexity and cognitive load, code fluidity, and confidence in yourself.
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The art of testing: where design meets quality
From a software developer's point of view
April 07, 2020 - 515 words -
3 mins
Why you should consider testing as part of your daily development habit and how it’s directly linked to the software quality.
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How to improve your tech-talk (or any other presentation)
Some tips to improve your communication skills
November 18, 2019 - 660 words -
4 mins
We have found ourselves attending a meeting that felt like we were wasting our time with a “monologue” that is either hard to follow or doesn’t seem so interesting as it could. Let’s fix this.
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