Reflections on career, soft skills, productivity, and the human side of programming.
The non-code side of being a developer — career reflections, lessons from community work, and honest takes on staying relevant in a fast-moving industry.
With 30+ tech talks delivered and over a decade in the industry, I write about developer life from direct experience — including what it takes to become a GDE and build a recognized technical presence.
A transparent list of developer tools I use daily - from productivity powerhouses like Warp and GitKraken to minimalist gems like There and Mole. Some are referrals, all are essential.
How to maintain your authentic voice as a developer in a world crowded with AI-generated content. Why lived experience and real analogies are your most powerful tools.
After years of using Loom for screen recordings, I made the switch to Cap.so. Here's why this open-source alternative won me over with its simplicity, features, and incredible pricing.
The year is ending soon. In 2025, I made many small projects, saved many articles, and installed many tools. Now, my digital life is messy. Here is how I cleaned it to start 2026 with a fresh start.
2025 is almost over. It wasn't perfect, but it was a challenging year for health and work-life balance.
Nowadays, when we need to work with multiple apps and products, and each one has its own version of libraries, it is important to make your environment flexible to changes. At that moment, nvm becomes a great option to run multiple versions of Node o...
Sometimes, life gets too noisy—work, technology, AI everywhere, and things always changing. We forget to care for what really matters. That’s when your body and health send a strong message and make you stop to think about your life. I’ve been offlin...
The year 2024 is almost over, and reflecting on it, it was amazing with many tech talks, community contributions, learning from the community, and sharing great times with friends and family. Special Thanks I want to say a big thank you to Jörgen de ...
Hi! 👋🏽 November has ended, and it was packed with four events in a single month (special thanks to my family, Edgar, and Silvia, for their patience ❤️). It was an incredible experience sharing and learning with the community and GDG. Let’s recap! �...
Hi! 👋🏽 October has ended, and it was a month where I felt more productive. I started to find time to write more, learn, and share! From exploring NgRx entities, building dashboards, to hosting exciting events. Let’s take a look back at the highligh...
September has come to an end, and it was a calm and reflective month. While I couldn't write as much as I had hoped, I took the time to adapt to my job at @celonis and dive deeper into Angular Signals, writing, and reading a great book. Let's take a ...
August has come and gone, and it was a bit quieter than usual. I focused on a few important things, especially refreshing my knowledge about RxJS, and took some time off. Thanks to @googledevexpert and @angularaddicts for the mention! Let me share wh...
July has come to an end. That month has been a bit busy, so I can't write too much, but I always take time to write about things I'm doing. During July, most of my time was spent writing tests and playing with ChatBots and LLMs. Let's take a look bac...
June has come to an end, and it has been a fantastic month with some changes in my professional life! I want to take a moment to share the great experience I had working with the community and learning about NgRx and testing. Let's take a look back a...
May has come to an end, and what a fantastic month it was! I had a great time learning about real-time apps, optimization, and NgRx. I also enjoyed working with Progress Telerik and Kendo UI learning about improve performance, build flexible componen...
April has come to an end, and what a fantastic month it was! I had a great time learning about Signals, Angular 17, and the future of testing. Let's take a look back at the highlights and fun moments. 👋🏼 Bye Bye Karma! Hello Web Test Runner and 🦥 ...
March has come to an end, and what a fantastic month it was! I had a great time diving into AI, learning about Angular and Typescript, and connecting with the DonWeb Cloud & IaaS community, especially about Kendo. Let's take a look back at the highli...
I was an Ubuntu / Mac user, but two years ago, I switched back to Windows. Why? Well, because of the high prices of MacBooks 😢, and my company assigned me a machine with Windows 11 Pro. However, as a frontend developer, most of my code and my apps r...
February was amazing and full of surprises! Let's go over the best parts and the fun projects I worked on. Cheers from the Community Big cheers: I became a #ProgressChampion! 🎉 Thank you so much to Progress Telerik and Kendo UI for this big honor. ...
Reflecting on 2023, I experienced a year brimming with presentations, contributions, and remarkable achievements in content creation. Here's a snapshot of my year by the numbers: 🎤 14 Talks: Shared knowledge on topics like Angular , Astro, Analog, ...
When working with code, explaining to others what we've done in our code is not easy. Writing commit messages to convey our changes can vary for each team member. Everyone has their own way of writing commit messages, and sometimes we don't know what...
The year 2022 is close to ending; it has been a fantastic year for my professional goals and family. I am 39 years old, so I have focused on investing energy in topics related to my job to make my life as a developer easier. I want to use this post t...
I love to have a clean terminal, the name of the computer is a piece of information not relevant to read every single time. I'm still using the bash shell. echo "export PS1='$ '" >> ~/.bash_profile . ~/.bash_profile For zsh users add the following ...
I'm a git Kraken lover but sometimes surf into my projects. I love to know in which branch I'm working. Edit the .bash_profile and paste the following lines. parse_git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/' ...
The 2021 year was good, professional, technical, and personal, but I'm 38 years old, so I can't learn too much stuff simultaneously. I'm learning slowly; similar to 2020, I'm only spending my energy on topics related to my job to make my life easy. I...
I'm VSCode fan, this is my 20 VSCode extensions in my workflow. A special description for my top 3. 1-TabNine is the most powerful extension for autocomplete and help with your code. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TabNine.tabnine...
Sometimes we ignore the duplicate files for every project.DS_Store or npm-debug.log*, we can save time using a global .gitignore. Note: Be Keep in mind that it will change your default behavior on your computer. If you share a project, be careful wh...
If the terminal window is too small for writing your commits, then using VSCode is your solution. Configuring it is easy. First, run the following command in the terminal: git config --global core.editor "code --wait". git config --global core.editor...
Hello, I'm a poor css guy who always uses a framework like bootstrap, and today I decided to use Bulma CSS. Bulma allows use by CDN or NPM. The CDN is an easy way to use but with some caveats. No Sass for customizing. Large file (complete Bulma fram...