Pablo's logbook

Remember when I told you all I'd swim in one lane?

As any tech lead/CTO worth their salt, I have not opened my IDE to write code for a few months now.

It’s nine AM, my work begins, A clear direction, where to go, I concentrate, I take it all in, And so I start, without a stop. - It's ten AM, no time to breathe, A single focus, reach my goal, And so I write, it is a breeze, My laptop, me, we are one. - In

My code is a liar!

At any given point there is only one most important thing you should be doing.

[Edit, 1st of September 2025: Philippe I'll pointed out to me that the artifacts I attribute to scrum have been addressed or removed in the latest scrum versions.]

DISCLAIMER: Thins post is not sponsored, just sharing my experience.

Maybe it sounds a little harsh, but a programmer who's been working professionally for five years has likely already revealed their potential.

Detailed plans, precise specifications, exact destinations are a trap.

What is it?

Floor and ceiling raisers have been on my mind lately regarding software development.

If I had to choose one thing and one thing only that I would enshrine as THE thing to make a software development team more effective, it would be frequent retrospectives.

It has been a couple of months since we started inserting small controlled experiments into our workflow at Recovr.

I had a discussion with a colleague the other day about randommess in FactoryBot objects.

Knowledge and practices have dependencies.

Some subjects are inherently better to learn Me - to a group of friends Allow me to explain what might seem like a hot take: 2 things make a subject 'inherently' better, one is deeply personal, the other is a matter of applicability : Deeply personal If t…

Recently I started a new position.

You can get a lot of value in rails by using value objects to compose your ActiveRecord models and using concepts from value objects to limit said models.

The book is quite ok (although a bit tedious in it's examples).

I made a website for a friend a couple months ago, it was a quick and dirty job, and to be honest not much more was/is needed.