Why we ditched story points to be more value-oriented
At TNP we worked using story points to estimate and control the amount of work everybody on the team was doing, but we decided to ditch it, here is why.
Posts by Year
2019
Get release tag from GitHub Actions to debug on Heroku
In TNP we’ve moved everything to GitHub Actions and we’re very happy about it. :-)
Automatize your new developer’s team onboarding with this simple app (in Python)
When a new developer joins our team, everybody wants to give them the best possible experience 🙌.
The Journey to control Code Quality
Coding, programming, developing, name your action! Such a funny and exciting amusement, sometimes going wrong under stress or when lacking experience in a ce...
Debug Python and Django easily from Visual Studio Code
Debugging code, sometimes painful, sometimes funny, but always an exciting task.
Common Git problems and easy incremental solutions for all the family
Git is a gentle beast, but beasts are wild, and they require taming, here are some tips to resolve 99% of git problems.
CI/CD on a Hyperledger Fabric project
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 ...
Testing chaincode on Hyperledger Fabric
Hyperledger is the Blockchain family of tools and frameworks for permissioned networks. At The Neon Project we’ve been working with solutions built with Hype...
2018
Recap
Quite a ride, my last post was written when I was still a member of Reply.ai, I had a six month young girl and maintaining a couple of Atom plugins.
2017
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Fixing my performance problems on Emacs
As you might know, I’ve had several performance problems on Emacs with a large project, that made me explore other editors.
Bye bye Delft
After four years living in this amazing city we moved back to Spain, Cordoba.
Rest-client atom package updates
I had a bit of time today to close some open issues:
Back to my own editor war
When I thought I was gonna keep using Emacs I realised I needed to overcome some performance problems that weren’t easy to fix. That made me start my researc...
Atom comment package release 0.4.0
Today I’ve released the 0.4.0 version of the comment package for Atom.
Comment package for Atom editor
A couple of weeks ago I took over a package from havber, He didn’t have time to maintain it anymore and I thought it was a good idea since I didn’t like the ...
Ghost blog for Emacs
Since I decided the path to the best editor for me is finished (for now) I decided to improve my experience with Emacs. I started learning some Elisp and the...
Rest-client for Atom, StrictSSL option
@watsonjon has implemented a StrictSSL option so It’s possible to use the rest client with self-signed certificates (handy for development), thank you!
Save and Load requests in rest-client for Atom
Some months ago I started to use the Atom editor and got deep into how the packages and themes work. After some months I moved back to Emacs and some of the ...
Ansible role releases, Ghost and Drupal dependencies
Releases updates:
Using Drush (Drupal) with Ansible, new role
Drush is a good solution to automatise installation and configuration in Drupal from the command line, if we combine It with Ansible It makes Drupal environm...
Gitlab CI configuration, Ansible and Drupal
Yesterday I wrote about how I configured the Gitlab CI runner for my projects, now I’m gonna show you how I configured the testing environment for Ansible pr...
Gitlab CI configuration, the runner
A month ago I started working in a new project, Last time I wrote about how I built my development environment from the Virtual Appliance received, today I’m...
2015
H4ckademy workshop
Last week I was in Madrid and I had the opportunity to contribute a bit to H4ckademy, a great iniciative from my friend Israel Gutiérrez.
Ample theme for the Atom editor
Last week I spent some time working on two themes based on the one I use for Emacs, Ample, the ample theme and the ample light theme.
Ghost Ansible role update, systemd support
Ansible role for Ghost now has Systemd support thanks to @brianwawok.
Event-driven architecture: Chat with Python and Tornado
At Selltag we built a simple chat service based on events, keeping It as simple as possible.
Adios Selltag
Selltag, la novia a la que hemos cortejado, hemos comprado bebidas, ella nos las ha comprado a nosotros también, invitado al cine, bonito mientras duró, pero...
Upgrade NixOS packages: geary, spideroak, phpcs
First an article about what’s NixOS trying to achieve and NixOS if you want to know what is all about.
NacexBundle, a PHP bundle
Today I am releasing one of the php bundles we made for Selltag, the NacexBundle.
Sentry and Ansible, process and thoughts
At Selltag we have been migrating some services to have a more organized environment. It has been the perfect moment to configure and document the servers de...
Clean Code, comments
Some months ago I finished the Clean Code book, I already wrote about functions, today I’ll write about my highlights regarding comments,
Spideroak
I’ve been using a new backup solution, SpiderOak. SpiderOak is a Zero-knowledge solution, that means 100% of the data is private and only readable by you, en...
Clean Code, functions
I am reading Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship. Here my highlights from the Functions chapter.
ExtendedArray for PHP
Today I released an ExtendedArray for PHP, you can check It out in Github.
javaguirre.ghost, my first Ansible role
Yesterday I created my first Ansible role, a role to manage, configure and install Ghost, the blogging platform.
Ansible and the Galaxy, roles
According to their site,
Auth with Behat token workaround
Behat is a very nice behaviour-driven framework well suited for Symfony.
Chromecast, first steps
A friend of mine gave me a Chromecast for my birthday, and I gotta say I found it very nice and full of possibilities. Plenty of Android apps are prepared fo...
i3, the tiling window manager
This year I’ve been in a journey to be more comfortable with my window manager/desktop, dwm served me well for a long time, but I needed more flexibility and...
Using Cyberghost VPN on ArchLinux
Last week I started using a VPN, You can read in this lifehacker article on why you could use one.
Elementary OS, thoughts
Two months ago I left my beloved window tiling manager dwm and gave an entire new system a try, Elementary OS.
My two weeks using Atom
I’ve been using the Atom editor for a couple of weeks, to give it a try. I found it appealing, but not yet for the every day use. Here is why.