Costa on Software

For over a decade, the digital landscape has been littered with the remains of would-be “YouTube killers.”

Me getting out of the lake This October I participated in my first sprint triathlon.

If you’re experiencing uneven load distribution across your Kubernetes pods, you might be dealing with long-lived connections.

Lately I have been observing the constant picking of Neon, mainly I presume for its performance from Planetscale’s CEO, and the X/Twitter community.

The race to delay aging has become a global fascination.

Picture this: your distributed system humming along nicely, serving thousands of requests per second with blazing-fast response times.

This exploration started after seeing a controversial tweet suggesting emoji sorting in programming languages exhibited white supremacy (troll post).

Iterators in GoLang were introduced in Go 1.23, and it was about time.

Profiling is an essential practice for optimizing the performance of your Go applications.

Reflecting on my computer engineering studies, I recall my professor’s cautionary words about the goto statement.

Tl;dr: Docker’s memory stats can trick you, especially with databases.

Tl;dr Learn the fundamentals of JavaScript, even if you’ve been working with React for years.

Just finished Project Hail Mary.

Recently I decided after a long time to read “The Psychology of Money” by Morgan Housel.

Unnecessary automation is encoded in a programmers DNA In the world of continuous software development, efficiently generating commit messages can save valuable time (μS - microseconds).

This one is from the archive 📂 When I stumbled upon Radix Themes page for the first time, I was taken by surprise.

My blogpost got featured in Smashing Magazine 🫶, go and check it out.

What a brilliant game to play while refresh your rusty bash skills Why I played this game Lazy Sunday, and I was looking for material to refresh my rusty bash skills.

The final result in Kepler.gl.

Does attention-grabbing content mean higher conversions?

Accessibility and Aesthetics do not have a Linear Relationship I stumbled across an article on medium last week from the UX movement.

A.I. will enable Predictive Design in Creatives Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we create content and how we design.

What is the best way to speed up Selenium paraller tasks?

The problem Open offices are killing productivity.

State of Gatsby This year’s Github report about projects revealed something.

I was searching online for a ERB beautifier and couldn’t find a complete solution that I could use on my Ubuntu and MacOS setup.

I recently had the opportunity for me and my team to attend WebSummit as a startup.