And how it helps you more than them — Several times in life we experience changing our workplace. Any time it happens, we feel like we have not enough soft skills, not enough experience, not enough recommendations. It is a moment of great fragility. Writing proper recommendation letters for your (ex-)coworkers is a good way to help others. …

And how to master it without frustration — There is one final and inevitable truth in computer science: The machine does nothing but what we ask. The straight consequence is that if there is a point of failure, then it must be us, the humans. Being honest with ourselves is indeed a great sign of maturity and humbleness…

Tips for effective communication with other tech and non-tech colleagues — As a developer, I know the struggle of being unheard and feeling as if I’m just chattering in the background. Or even being ignored when meeting invitations are sent. Or when the meeting host is not hearing the tech point we want to make. …

5+ Tips to boost unexpected (overnight) working hours — Developers often work in a fast-moving environment. Sometimes only because it is our own will, sometimes due to our bad time management, other times due to the bad manager requiring us some stuff ASAP (though it was possible to prevent it!), or just because the customer really needs it on…

Until I ask you — It is quite common nowadays that things get so trendy, that they eventually lose their meaning. Buzzwords are a plague, where the simple fact that something “it is” does not matter as much as “why is it there?”. The same is happening to AI: there is no interest in whether…

Juniors alone will end like wannabe explorers: a lot of courage, but a terrible death. — Last week I had a quick chat with one of my ex-colleagues. He was happy about his fresh new startup job but quite concerned. “Man, I used to be the Junior of the team. Here it looks I am the Senior!”. Comes out he was really doing a senior’s job…

Boolean return, complex conditions, and more… — In a programmer's life, one gets nuked by tons of advice: complex patterns, OOP, Reactive, etc. But sometimes we can really improve by focusing on the simplest things. Booleans are often underestimated, but they play an important role in bad habits, code smells, and low quality in general. 1. Boolean Return Unless your…

That Time I Wiped the Hard Disk… — Sweaty palms. Void head. Stomach cramps. “Damn… it can’t be”. You don’t build seniority in a day. We have all been juniors, and as such, we failed often, and (hopefully) learn a lot. …

How does it generate and how can you contain it — Bugs spoil software features and make users disappointed. But there is also a counterpart, a dual opposite: Tech Debt. Correctly working awfully written code is a plague for any developer. Birth of Tech Debt Tech Debt is a fine name to call a petty thing. When you know that you are doing something not…