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Writing a good CLAUDE.md – Useful tips to write better CLAUDE.md (or AGENTS.md) files.
How SQLite Is Tested – SQLite is one of the most important and used open source softwares out there, and to support this massive and critical codebase, they developed a heavy suite of different tests around it. This post covers how it work.
30 Years of <br> Tags – An amazing post through the history of web development (mostly front-end). Amazing to remember and see how web and the development evolved over the years.
How Netflix Built a Distributed Write Ahead Log For Its Data Platform – Netflix built its own WAL platform decoupled from any database or queue system using its own internal foundations. This is a very interesting solution and this post (that is a summary of the original Netflix’s one) explains how they achieved it.
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On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads – Blogging is not only about producing content to someone read, there’s a lot of benefits of get used to write, even without nobody reading it.
Embrace whitespace – Whitespace is a simple thing that can improve a lot the readability of your code, unfortunately, many developers nowadays (and AIs) forget to use it correctly.
Deep Dive into Variables in Go – Simple tutorial to understand what is variables in Golang.
Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 – Funny post 🙂 (But a little old as it is from 2015), how some famous programmers desktops changed over 13 years? Spoiler: Almost nothing.
Please Just Fucking Try HTMX – Every time that I see a new post selling HTMX I feel even more that I should test it, maybe in the future.
The highest quality codebase – What happens if you ask an AI 200x to improve the quality of a codebase?
Go feature: Secret mode – Interesting feature coming to Golang, I never heard about anything similar to this in other languages.
Modernizing Reddit’s Comment Backend Infrastructure – Even with many resources out there, language migrations are always hard. On this post we learn how Reddit migrated its comment infrastructure from Python to Go with no errors and rigorous test during the development.
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