Jorge | Code, Coffee and Music

That in which I explore how coding agents allow for building better software by taking care of the boring, undifferentiated parts of it.

That in which I talk about why did I build another read-it-later application and why it matters.

That in which we discuss how to talk about our tools and how does AI fit into it.

That in which I talk about why "insights" are overestimated.

That in which I talk about how engineering was not the real product bottleneck and how the current LLM’s are making this obvious right now.

That in which I go over how to build a simple but effective feature flag system.

The one in which I talk about my rules of thumb when starting on a new team.

The one in which I share our experience on going through the SOC-2 type 2 audit

The one in which I duscuss building versus buying and why/how I decided to build a simple queuing system at work.

The one in which I talk about implementing ELO scores and fixing bugs

The one in which I duscuss git worktrees and how they can help you work on multiple branches at the same time.

That in which I talk about maintenance, mobile layouts, audio generation, etc.

That in which I talk about onboarding flows, multi-language support and first users.

That in which we talk about the latest updates in working on the vocabulary builder

The one in which we go through the differences between a final product and an evoulutionary product.

That in which I give an update on the progress so far to catch up with my lack of updates

The one in which I talk about layering as a philosophy for product development.

The one in which we talk about what really makes a product when compared to simply a collection of features.

That in which I talk about the idea for FalaGym and the direction I intend to take with it

That in which I talk about my current principles for maintaining a healthy backlog when working on a team and moving fast.

That in which I discuss when it pays to be efficient and when, maybe, you should forget about it.

The one in which we try to understand the real difference between a fact and an opinion and, after that, try to determine when shoul you value facts more and when should opinions have a higher value.

The one in which we talk about the differences between when you are building something compared to when you are crafting something.

The one in which I talk about understanding the problem before trying to solve it.

The one where I talk about limiting the scope and polishing the experience when starting something

Reflections on things I wish I had known when I was at the start my career and that I wish I have shared with people around me struggling with their first jobs, first managers and first disappointments.

Some reflections on how it feels to turn 34 years old.

You must use AI when coding.

Keeping notes on what you are working on during the day has some surprising benefits and helps the brain to travel light.

Justifying your failure is the most efficient way to make sure that you don't learn from it.

MVP should not be shitty.

Becoming more productive is one of the rare things in life that is absolutely good.

When people around me are talking about shows and getting excited about it, I don't really feel like I am missing out.

With the new year starting it is time to take account of the past year, learn from it and see what I can adjust to make the new year even better.

This time I will talk about how and why I decided to change my keyboard layout from QWERTY to Colemak and why you should too.

Let's look at how to (properly) handle the safe area in react native, beyond the simple strategy of slapping a safe area view everywhere.

Sometimes we would like to combine to types into a complete new type.

There is a common parttern of using useState with an object as its contents.

There are many ways to handle authentication when you are building your GraphQL api.

Teams deal with technical debt differently.

The impostor syndrome is real and presents itself in many ways.

After having struggled for a while to make full use of Typescript, ESLint and Prettier with Next.js I finally managed to get it all working and decided to write it up for myself and whoever else finds it useful.

Time to look back at 2021 and reflect on the things I did well, what could have been done better, good times and what to aim for in the year that has started.

What did it take for me to move from a highly paid management job in a large coorporation into a Developer job in a small startup?

You cannot be creative.

A simple collection of tips and flows that I use every single day in git and github for work, pleasure and profit.