“Messy code is a nuisance. “Tidying” code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into manageable sections. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of software patterns, suggests when and where you might apply tidyings to improve your code while keeping the overall structure of the system in mind. (…)” O’Reilly - Tidy First

The book is clear, objective, and easy to read. Its simple explanations and examples on empirical software design carry sophisticated concepts on evaluating when, how, what, and if to tidy at all.

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I participated in the Rinha de backend (pt-BR) or “Backend Rooster Fight” in English challenge and I was super excited to see the results of my super hacky and performant solution.

The results were scheduled to be published at 21:00 BRT (2 AM CEST my local time). So I stayed up til later that night grabbed popcorn, and waited for the results.

Well, I wish I hadn’t waited…

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Picture this, you have a critical and reasonably complicated piece of logic in your application that is handled in the database. Despite any change on it (or around it), you must have a 100% guarantee that piece continues to work just fine. So, what do you do?

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When studying HTML, CSS, and Javascript it’s hard to practice with real-world examples, so oftentimes we get stuck trying to come up with a good design and then building it.

Frontend Mentor to the recue!

Frontend Mentor offers front-end coding challenges and interesting projects to practice your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is as close as it gets to work on a professional real-world project.

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got is a CLI written in Go, created on top of the git CLI, to make my life easier by shortening some commands I use daily.

Because it’s built on top of git, all git commands will also work just fine and I don’t need to keep switching between got and git!

If I want to clean up my local dead branches I can got rmb instead of git branch | grep -v "main" | xargs git branch -D (you can call me lazy. I accept that 😅).

xkcd Automation.

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