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Documenting a personal journey through software engineering, AI, and programming. This blog features deep dives, practical guides, and recent learnings for both seasoned and aspiring developers.

2026

Building AI-Promptable Full-Stack Apps: A Reproducible Architecture 8 min read • 1771 words

How we extracted a reproducible full-stack architecture for AI-promptable web apps with TanStack Start, interfaces for every external service, and Zod schemas as single source of truth.

Isolated Integration Tests with pytest-scenarios 2 min read • 376 words

Use pytest-scenarios to create isolated integration test data that cleans itself up automatically.

python testing pytest mongodb integration-testing

2025

TanStack Router: Opinionated Guidelines for Production React Apps August 30, 2025 • 6 min read • 1196 words

Based on real-world experience in shipping complex applications, this guide delivers the best practices you need to master modern React development and ship high-quality, scalable applications. Perfect for developers looking to optimize React performance and application architecture.

react typescript tanstack-router frontend web-development architecture tanstack router routing guidelines type-safe routing data fetching state management production-ready vite vitest arktype application architecture

2021

Easily creating a golang command line tool 2 min read • 380 words

Let's see how to easily and quickly create a command line tool in golang

golang cli tools cmd

Parameterized Tests in Cypress

Parameterized Tests in Cypress 2 min read • 261 words

How to write parameterized tests in Cypress

testing cypress javascript e2e

2020

Golang over Java for REST services 7 min read • 1590 words

Why I'd pick Golang over Java to create any new distributed system. I am going to compare a REST service implementation in Java vs the implementation in Golang

golang java rest api web-services web services gingonic spring

2019

Create a PWA with Create React App: Lessons Learned June 10, 2020 • 11 min read • 2469 words

Lessons learned while developing a PWA with CRA: Budget Tracker

react typescript pwa firebase frontend web-development cra create react app firestore svelte sapper

Create SPA with React + Typescript + Parcel July 10, 2019 • 4 min read • 776 words

Example project how to create a Single Page Application with React, Typescript and Parcel.

react typescript parcel frontend web-development spa

2018

Custom Maven Plugin - Override default build lifecycle 1 min read • 127 words

How to create a custom Maven plugin which overrides default build lifecycle

java maven build-systems plugins build systems maven plugins

Example how to create custom Maven Plugin 7 min read • 1640 words

Example to understand Maven plugins concepts and how to create a custom Maven plugin from scratch

java maven build-systems plugins build systems maven-site-plugin maven plugins

2017

Choosing a Modern C++ stack June 13, 2020 • 4 min read • 932 words

Why I'd choose Meson+Doctest tech stack to create a new C++ project with a reusable and easy-to-run example.

cpp build-systems meson testing doctest c++ unit testing build system catch

Filesystem in C++17 3 min read • 655 words

We are going to analyze with examples new filesystem features coming with C++17

cpp cpp17 filesystem c++ c++11 c++17 io

2016

Multi-Domain Docker Containers 3 min read • 524 words

How to create different Docker containers with different domain names in the same host

docker microservices reverse-proxy nginx

Convert files formats - Windows to Unix 1 min read • 110 words

Convert Windows formatted files to Unix format per directory recursively

unix linux tools windows useful commands

2015

REST URLs 5 min read • 1167 words

Design REST API: URLs

rest api web-services architecture web services

2014

Build C++ project with Gradle 6 min read • 1252 words

How to build a C++ project using Gradle

cpp gradle build-systems c++ build software build system dependency management

Embedded Java Databases - Performance Comparison 3 min read • 707 words

Performance comparison in Java between three embedded databases like Derby/JavaDB, Sqlite, and ObjectDB

java database performance sqlite embedded

Java serialization ways: Performance Comparison 3 min read • 664 words

Java serialization ways, performance comparison

java performance serialization

Mutex C++ 1 min read • 153 words

Mutex wrapper on C++98 pthread mutex and a the better C++11 std::mutex solution

cpp concurrency multithreading c++ pthread mutex

2013

Android Studio Portable Download 1 min read • 32 words

Link to download Android Studio Portable

android tools ide

Debugging library generated with libtool 1 min read • 128 words

How to debug a library generated with libtool

cpp debugging autotools build-systems c++ gnu tips and tricks

2012

C++ Struct memory alignment 2 min read • 463 words

Understanding pragma pack preprocessor directive and how it affects to memory alignment

cpp performance memory-management c++ compilers memory

Git Proxy Configuration 1 min read • 212 words

Quick guide to configure Git to work through HTTP/HTTPS proxies

git configuration tools proxy tips

Replace punctuation symbols in Python May 09, 2012 • 1 min read • 50 words

An example of how to remove or replace punctuation symbols of a Python string

python text-processing tips and tricks

Text Normalization in Python 1 min read • 120 words

Avoiding problems with texts containing non-ASCII characters

python text-processing tips and tricks

Remove HTML Tags 1 min read • 90 words

How to remove HTML tags using Python or even easier, using Django

python django html text-processing

Remove orphaned packages (Linux) 1 min read • 67 words

How to remove unused packages in Linux

linux package-management system-administration archlinux debian tips and tricks