Thoughts on creating and delivering tech products — In this piece I share some of my thoughts and learnings on the relationship between the product and engineering roles, more specifically between product managers and tech leads. I’m lucky to have both a background in engineering but also in marketing & management. These areas complement each other wonderfully, although…

A practical walkthrough on building a micro frontend architecture with multiple Vue.js apps using single-spa. Note that you can replace Vue with your framework of choice. Listen to Views on Vue’s episode 160 where I discuss the details of how we implemented this architecture at Unbabel. The first article of…

Plowing through one PR crisis after another, could its long term goals not be purely financial gain? — Is it far-fetched to speculate that Facebook’s long term goal may entail becoming more than a mere place to sell ads to people, but actually a global powerhouse for mass manipulation of ideologies, perceptions and beliefs? …

Extreme societal events are always an opportunity to bring people and nations together¹. But they can also put at risk our individual freedoms. The sentence “desperate times call for desperate measures” can entail both relief and fear depending on who says it and the involved measures. …

Labor organizing at Google and other big tech companies is just the beginning — Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet have each reached a $1 trillion market capitalization. While many are in awe at this growth in wealth and technological power, others, specifically the workers at these companies themselves, are worried about the ramifications that such an asymmetric power dynamic entails. Tech workers are seeing…

As technology companies become ever more engrained in every aspect of our daily lives, we must remain attentive as to how these interact between us and our governments. …

Setting up a Continuous Integration pipeline from A to Z that: runs tests, builds the app and deploys it to Netlify. Let’s do it! 🤓 By now you’ve probably deployed a project to Netlify using their UI by linking a GitHub/GitLab project and setting up the necessary steps to build…

I’ve been wanting to implement Storybook in my Nuxt.js projects for a while now. For those who don’t know, Storybook is an open source tool for developing UI components in isolation. Check out its use cases. Using Storybook with plain Vue.js is no hassle but it’s another story with Nuxt…

There’s a disturbing trend going on right now (2018). I suppose it’s a global thing? But more specifically in Portugal everyone is wearing the same Levis t-shirt! I mean eeeveeeryoooone. 🐑 If you are in downtown Lisbon or if you happen to stroll around one of the main shopping malls…