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Fernando Doglio
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Code Well with Others: Be an Effective Team Player
Code Well with Others: Be an Effective Team Player

Skills to grow from a solo coder into a productive member of a software development team

2022

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Fernando Doglio
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Are You Still Using Your Normal Keyboard? — The Ultimate Guide to Getting Your First Mechanical Keyboard

Come and understand the “why”, the “how” and the “where” to get your first split mechanical keyboard — Truth is, you will never see professional soccer players using the cheapest shoes they could find and you’ll never see artists that publish and sell their work for millions of dollars using run-of-the-mill paint brushes. Then why is it OK for you, someone who’s spending at least 8 hours a…

Mechanical Keyboards

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The Ultimate Guide to Getting Your First Mechanical Keyboard
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Your First Mechanical Keyboard
Mechanical Keyboards

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Who Am I and Why Is It Such a Great Idea to Follow me?

I’m here to answer that age-old question: who the f*ck is this guy? — Hi there! Thanks for checking out my profile, I’m Fernando. I’m a writer originally from Uruguay but now living with my family in Spain. I’ve been writing about software development since I was 15 years old, in one way or another I always kept a blog somewhere (the first one…

About

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Who Am I and Why Is It Such a Great Idea to Follow me?
Who Am I and Why Is It Such a Great Idea to Follow me?
About

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Better Programming

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The Biggest Lie in Open Source

There are several big ones, so I’ll let you be the judge — Open source is one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever encountered in our industry. It is a movement that essentially groups people together to work on a product because they want to. They usually do it for free, especially during the first stages of the project, and then —…

Programming

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The Biggest Lie In Open Source
The Biggest Lie In Open Source
Programming

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The Post-Grad Survival Guide

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Why Freelancing Is Not What Everyone Makes It Out To Be

I tried to live as a freelancer. This is why I failed at it. — The dream of being your own boss is one that almost everyone goes through at some point during their career. For some strange reason, we tend to believe we can do away with concepts such as “boss,” “9 to 5,” or “team meetings” and just sit down, put our head…

Freelancing

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Why Freelancing Is Not What Everyone Makes It Out To Be
Why Freelancing Is Not What Everyone Makes It Out To Be
Freelancing

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Sep 19

Free Online Tutorials Suck: A Solution for Aspiring Developers

It’s never been your fault, tutorials weren’t meant for you — Online tutorials have become a go-to resource for developers seeking to expand their knowledge. But let’s be honest, how often have you found yourself scratching your head after hours of reading a tutorial, feeling like you’re missing crucial pieces of the puzzle? If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re not alone. …

Online Learning

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Free Online Tutorials Suck: A Solution for Aspiring Developers
Free Online Tutorials Suck: A Solution for Aspiring Developers
Online Learning

3 min read


Sep 12

The Problem With 99% of All Online Tutorials

They’re just not detailed enough, and that’s a problem — In the vast void of online tutorials, there’s no shortage of content promising to teach you everything you need to know. A quick Google search yields countless results, all screaming for your attention. Yet, despite this apparent abundance, there’s a problem that plagues most of them, have you noticed? The…

Online Learning

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The Problem With 99% of All Online Tutorials
The Problem With 99% of All Online Tutorials
Online Learning

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Bits and Pieces

·Aug 30

Refactoring a Legacy Frontend App in 2024

How to refactor frontend apps in 2024? — Maintaining an old project is never fun, especially not when you see places where you can make the code better and reusable, but the extra effort required to do that would simply not be worth it to the project itself. Lucky for you, there are tools out there that make…

Frontend

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Refactoring a Legacy Frontend App in 2024
Refactoring a Legacy Frontend App in 2024
Frontend

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Bits and Pieces

·Aug 24

Composable Frontend Architecture for 2024

How to build a successful architecture for your composable frontends — Composable frontends allow you to create complex UIs from reusable, individual and (most importantly) independent logic building blocks (you can think of them as digital Lego bricks). They facilitate collaboration with other teams, making it easier to grow and scale these “bricks”. However, architecting your project in a way that…

Software Architecture

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Composable Frontend Architecture for 2024
Composable Frontend Architecture for 2024
Software Architecture

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Bits and Pieces

·Aug 23

Best Tools for Composable Frontend in 2024

Composable frontends are the future, so let’s get ready for them — While 2024 is still a bit away, it’s never too early to start thinking about how the industry is changing and what alternatives should you be looking into. Especially so because composable frontends pose a fantastic solution to an ever-growing problem: the apps are getting bigger and more complex, and…

Frontend

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Best Tools for Composable Frontend in 2024
Best Tools for Composable Frontend in 2024
Frontend

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JavaScript in Plain English

·Aug 3

5 Best Practices for Backends-for-Frontends

Best practices to follow when implementing the BFF pattern: do’s and don’ts. — The Backends-for-Frontends (BFF) pattern is an interesting solution to a problem many teams face — meaningfully decoupling the frontend from the backend, insulating the former from changes to the latter. In this article, I’m going to quickly explain the BFF pattern, and then focus on some of the best practices…

JavaScript

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5 Best Practices for Backends-for-Frontends
5 Best Practices for Backends-for-Frontends
JavaScript

8 min read

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