This article has been translated to Spanish here.

I have been working as a Software Engineer at Gousto since 2017. Remote working full-time is not our general policy (although we have 1 or 2 days per week that we can work from home), however Gousto is cool enough to offer full time remote working and work abroad opportunities to committed employees.

We agreed recently to start planning my relocation to Spain in the second half of the year while still being a Gousto employee. We were ironing out the details when the Coronavirus Crisis happened.

Since the beginning of the…

Recently, I had to refactor some code that was in a rough state:

The above logic determines the URL for endpoints and it depends on multiple things: the service you’re using, if it’s rendered on the server or the client, if it’s a production or a test environment, etc.

One of the reasons a piece of code can become so messy is when we forget that duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction.

The good news is that you can apply a couple of simple…