Lessons from Rich Hickey’s illustrious career — Most commonly known for the creation of the Clojure programming language, Rich Hickey can easily be considered a brilliant and experienced engineer with 20-plus years of experience in the field. But he’s also a great thinker and speaker who’s able to distill and give shape to ideas that are not…

The best developers work effectively with their team. This is how they do it — I’ve had jobs as a developer where I had teammates who were great people, but we did not work well together. …

Spoiler alert: Working late into the night is not one of them — I’ve started so many side projects. Little or not so little, most of them were focused on one thing: making myself learn something new. Although I’ve taken on several pet projects since I started coding more than seven years ago, year after year, I end up having less and less…

A little code can go a long way — Have you ever seen a sushi chef cut fish with a katana sword? Yeah, me either. It probably looks awesome, but we can all agree that such a blade is not the best tool for turning fish into dinner. I love Python and I’ve used it for so many things…