How to Cross the Lake
Explaining (part) of my day-to-day job as a technical leader.
Garden
I write following the Digital Gardening concept.
On Seniority [WIP]
Thoughts on the challenge of defining seniority in engineering (and elsewhere), the incompleteness of proxies like years of experience and similar to gauge seniority. Seniority is ultimately about impact through technical knowledge, decision-making skills, and the ability to multiply impact.
Team communication frequency as a proxy to discovery/delivery health
Thoughts on a recent release and teams' communication patterns.
On Practices and How They Shape Resilient Teams
Thoughs on how resiliency is tied with the ability to deal with uncertanty and change.
Escaping the Informational Bubble – on Building Thoro News
As Thoro News (now Frontcover) reaches almost 10MM articles and 2MM clustered topics, I reflect on why I keep working on this project.
Evolution of a Calendar from IC to M track
A look at how my weeks changed over the years, moving from an Individual Contributor to a Manager track.
Shipping mindsets between B2C and B2B products
To ship means different things depending on waht you're building and who you're talking to.
Premonitions from Infinite Detail
Images I collect around the web that remind me of the book Infinite Detail.
January 6th and the urge to do something about it
Today marks the one year anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Capitol. I'm not American but I believe in the democratic system and, at that moment, I felt the urge to do something.
Time to refactor my website. Again.
I've had been wanting to make my website more performant, closer to an old school vanilla website, without any fancy frontend framework. Less is more, right?
Gesture Controled UI
Controling a cursor and selection action with hand gestures.
Views on Vue Podcast Episode 160
Conversation on the Views on Vue Podcast where I discuss designing and using a micro-frontend architecture.
Balancing Engineering And Product Mindsets
Thoughts and learnings on the relationship between the product and engineering roles, more specifically between product managers and tech leads.
Facebook: The Aspirational Government
Plowing through one PR crisis after another, could its long term goals not be purely financial gain?
Coronavirus' Side Effects Include Erosion of Privacy?
Extreme societal events are always an opportunity to bring people and nations together<sup>1</sup>. But they can also put at risk our individual freedoms.
VR Newsroom
Web VR experiment with Thoro's news API and A-Frame.
Playing PokemonGo, only with folks wearing a Levis t-shirt
If you happen to stroll around Lisbon, Porto or Algarve around some crowded areas like shopping malls, there are moments where, at any given moment, you’ll literally have a Levis shirt in any of your eyesight's angle. There’s no escaping it!
Voice Controlled Shopping List
Building a voice powered groceries shopping assistant for the (defunct) Pixel Camp's 2016 Hackathon.