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It’s been so long since I wrote anything for myself.

(Epistemic status: heuristics drawn from writing and reading code over the years, informed a little bit by a reading of Pinker’s The Sense of Style.)

This was originally posted at the Building Nubank blog NuConta is Nubank’s digital bank account.

TL;DR: Resumos e exercícios sobre racionalidade prática Em 2018, eu completei o workshop de racionalidade prática do CFAR.

PDF of slides Datomic updates in production systems face a choice: take advantage of dead-simple reads with snapshot isolation in application code, or shove business logic into the serial transactions for foolproof consistency.

https://github.com/gusbicalho/haskell-todo haskell-todo is my first incursion into real-world-ish Haskell.

(Status epistêmico: apanhado de ideias que acho que funcionam por experiência própria.

(This is part of a series of posts on tools for thinking about programming — abstractions, patterns and smells, among other things — which I think make all kinds of programming tasks easier.

Disponível também no site InfoQ Criar uma experiência bancária do zero preparada para uma escala de milhões de clientes é um grande desafio.

https://gusbicalho.github.io/fiveminutetimer/ This is a 5-minute timer with a textarea that becomes readonly when the timer runs off.

Meus destaques do livro Guia de Escrita, de Steven Pinker, tradução de Rodolfo Ilari.

I just finished Daniel Dennett’s Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking.

When you are trying to understand something by yourself, a useful skill to check your grasp on the subject is to try out the moving parts of your mental model and see if you can simulate the resulting changes.

Postado originalmente em racionalidade.com.br.