Daniel H. Pink’s Drive takes a fascinating look at what truly motivates us, flipping conventional wisdom on its head. Pink explores the evolution of human motivation and challenges the traditional “carrot and stick” approach, presenting a new framework based on intrinsic motivation—our internal drive to seek autonomy, mastery,
Imagine stepping into your codebase like a detective entering a crime scene—examining clues, tracing patterns, and identifying the culprits behind issues that hamper productivity. That’s the central metaphor in Your Code as a Crime Scene by Adam Tornhill. Instead of focusing on the traditional task of writing new
Software development is both complex and creative, requiring a balance between delivering value quickly and maintaining high quality. In The Nature of Software Development, Ron Jeffries outlines a practical approach to building software that emphasizes small, continuous progress, delivering value sooner, and improving teams’ effectiveness. Deliver Value Early and Often
As a seasoned software engineer and avid guitarist, Atomic Habits by James Clear resonated with me on multiple levels. The book provides a framework for habit-building that aligns well not just with career and life goals but also with creative pursuits—like mastering the electric guitar. Let me share some
If you’ve ever wanted to start or maintain a blog but found yourself procrastinating, you’re not alone. The process of writing the actual content is just part of the battle—sometimes the hardest part is just getting started. It’s not always the ideas that are lacking, but
TL;DR Systems thinking is a powerful approach to solving complex problems by recognizing patterns, thinking holistically, and balancing technical and social factors. Key traits of a systems thinker include nonlinear thinking, continuous learning, and the ability to work respectfully with others. Important lessons from Learning Systems Thinking V2 include
End-to-end (E2E) testing is a critical part of ensuring the quality and performance of modern applications. When working with APIs, having an efficient and effective way to document, test, and automate those tests is essential. Insomnia, an API client typically used for API testing and debugging, offers a robust way
This is part of an exercise I built for a company as a proof of concept Optimizing Bike Builds with Z3: A Solver for Part Selection When you’re running a bike shop that offers customizable builds, you quickly run into a common problem: how do you ensure that customers
Running Periodic Lambda Jobs with a CLI Command: A Deep Dive (Part 2) In Part 1, we explored how to create and run Lambda jobs using a CLI command. Now, let’s take a deeper dive into how AWS Lambda integrates with the AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) stack, and
Running Periodic Lambda Jobs with a CLI Command: A Deep Dive (Part 1) When you're working with AWS Lambda and automation, there comes a time when you need to execute jobs programmatically. This is where the power of a custom CLI command shines. In this post, we'
Refactoring with the Strategy Pattern in Python When working on a system that involves multiple variations of a process, like payment processing, it's easy to end up with complex if-else statements. This can make the code difficult to manage and extend. The Strategy Pattern provides a way to
Simplifying API Testing with Insomnia Environment Variables When you’re dealing with API testing, especially on a project where endpoint URLs can become complex and repetitive, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Not only do you have to remember the base URL for your API, but you also have to
Speeding Up Your Python Deployments: How UV Turbocharges CI/CD In the world of CI/CD, every second saved can have a significant impact on your workflow. If you’re working with Python projects, you’ve probably noticed that installing dependencies with pip can be a major time sink. However,
As a founder of my own company, I was deeply involved in cultivating a set of core values that did more than just shape our corporate culture—they propelled us towards innovation, excellence, and a distinct way of doing business. I'm sharing these values to illuminate our approach,
Index Because things can and will go wrong eventually, we need to have the right way of recovering from it. When we push to production, and the application fails, the first thing we need to do is roll back to the previous working version so we can debug the problem
learning
Hi! As when we start learning an instrument, we cannot think we can start playing Jimmy Page's riff with a couple of hours of practice, we need to interiorize the ideas and first think without coding, evaluate what we want to do, and design the solution. Designing is
startup
Recruiting, something many of us have suffered more than enjoyed due to the voracious, aggressive and competitive tech world. In several occasions candidates applying have asked me for feedback, here I compile the ideas they told me had found useful from what I learned. TL;DR We don't
startup
TL;DR A company goal is not to make people happy, but safety when they're doing something they like or break and feel improvement in the process. I wrote this several months ago and I still think these learnings are accurate for me. What did work for me
git
In Wealize we've moved everything to GitHub Actions and we're very happy about it. :-) But... this article is not about how happy we are using it but a small tip on how we could simplify every day debugging with some simple improvements. As a good
python
When a new developer joins our team, everybody wants to give them the best possible experience 🙌. We've created a simple command line app in Python that with minimum configuration helps the new developer, in a geeky way, set up his/her environment and checks if everything works! It
cicd
Coding, programming, developing, name your action! Such a funny and exciting amusement, sometimes going wrong under stress or when lacking experience in a certain technology. The Challenge We sometimes need to write code we're not proud of, but nowadays we have mechanisms to quantify that and improve its
git
Git is a gentle beast, but beasts are wild, and they require taming, here are some tips to resolve 99% of git problems. Working with developers of different experience levels made me realize we should have a simple suitable method to resolve all possible issues when working on a git
python
Debugging code, sometimes painful, sometimes funny, but always an exciting task. If we don't use the right tools, It's where the developer can waste more time. Making debugging easy for developers has been sometimes a problem for technology, but fortunately, in Python, there have been good
blockchain
Today we bring you the second post of this series of technical articles regarding development with Hyperledger Fabric. Last time we talked about how we test our chaincode, today we go one step further and we’ll show you how we deploy the code automatically. CI/CD is the combined