I like using serverless architectures for new projects because of how much cheaper it is compared to having your own servers/instances running all the time, and I need to worry less about the infrastructure. If my project is a sudden success (not probable, but still possible), everything should scale smoothly. …

In my experience as a Team Leader and Senior Developer working in different startups, I saw companies struggle and fail. Not because their ideas or products were bad, or they lacked good teams, but because of bad management. …

Not long ago I started using Pulumi for deploying the infrastructure for my projects. I’m always trying to automate things as much as possible, and having everything coded in my repo for my projects. …

Developing on bitcoin, we are used to hear that there’s an absolute minimum of satoshis that an UTXO should have in order to be accepted and not considered “dust”. If you google, that value is said to be 546 satoshis. But that’s actually not a fixed value, but it’s calculated…

A friend of mine is starting to learn how to code, and I thought it could be a good idea for her to practice algorithms by doing some code challenges. When I looked for some code challenge sites to suggest to her, I saw that the “easy” level was not…

I’m working on a project based on Bitcoin-SV. Mainly we are trying to develop more complex bitcoin scripts to expand bitcoin’s usage to other applications that expand beyond just “sending bitcoins”. From this experience I’ve reached to some thoughts that I’m sharing here. Having scalable contracts Ethereum contracts allow for way more complex…

I’ve been using Cypress since last year. It’s an end-to-end testing platform, that uses Chrome (and now other browsers) to run its tests, which are developed in nodejs. What I liked about it: Easy to write test cases using nodejs Single package installation does everything you need You get screenshots…

I’ve read before about Basecamp and its founder story about how to build a company outside the startup mainstream culture of “being the next unicorn”. I really like building web stuff and my goal always was to build a product profitable enough to work on it full time. Most of…

When thinking about search, I always think server side first. Maybe because I’ve been a server side developer most of my life. Or maybe because I’m just old and I still don’t grasp the idea of how many things can be delegated to the browser. Anyhow, building this product which…