Alex Oliveira

I’ve been using Claude Code as my primary coding assistant for a while now.

It’s 9:00 am, September 29, Takijiri-oji (滝尻王子).

This universal prompt for Claude Code and others has greatly improved my AI usage for coding tasks.

The following is a template for RFC’s and Tech Briefs I’ve been using since 2013 in startups for change proposals and aligning understanding among engineers and business people.

We humans tend to perceive the world as a series of yes/no answers.

The Ruby convention for using bangs (!)

Some friends use Instagram as primary chat app.

Não sei se é só comigo, mas a experiência de tirar o visto japonês é aterrorizante.

When I meditate, my mind calms down.

Config the following file and save it with some name file.rb: report = CSV.generate do |csv| csv << ["name", "email"] users = User.where( :created_at => Date.parse("01-11-2020")..Date.parse("30-11-2020") ) users.each do |user| csv << [us…

These are foundational topics for one-on-one’s.

I’ve always been dissatisfied with blogging.

I wrote about what would be ideal blogging process.

If I had to point out one skill that differentiates great makers I worked with, it would be deliberate derisking.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves - Alan Kay I am perplexed about the sudden and continuous deve…

Update (2015): A year after publishing this article, Adrian Bejan, who discovered the Constructal Law, invited me to speak at the Constructal Law & Second Law Conference at the University of Parma, Italy.