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Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

Around one year ago, I was promoted, and in a company with a Y career, I had to choose between a management or technical branch. I had already put a lot of work into thinking about this, so it was ...

To guard or not to guard: Header guards x pragma once

Roughly 10 years ago I started working with C++, and even though I started studying the language, its syntax, and details, there was nothing like having the code I wrote reviewed by other people to...

CppCon 2022 - Trip report

Over a month ago, in October, I attended CppCon 2022 for the third year in a row, and once again, virtually. Just like last year, the conference was held in a hybrid model, meaning that attendees c...

Colorall Game Devlog - Creating a game in one week

tl;dr; I developed a game by myself for the One Minute Game Jam using Godot in just a few days. You can check it and play it online at itchi.io. How it all began I will not lie that when choosin...

Guessing better in Wordle using Python

It’s a new year and usually, people tend to make goals of working out, getting more organized, and leaving addictions, and I’m no different. But to my surprise, I started the year with a new addict...

Online tools for C++ developers

C++ is the main language I use. It’s what pays my bills but more than that, is what gives me a lot of joy due to its complexity and powerfulness. But many times when I’m working I miss the ability ...

Code Review - What is and why you should care

Recently, I gave a talk on Code Review at the WomentTech Global Conference (I even talk about how it all happened in this post). It was such a great experience, I decided to share in a text (and so...

Code Annotation: a VSCode extension for adding notes on your code without commiting

tl;dr; Code annotation is a Visual Studio Code extension that creates and tracks annotations from your source code without actually committing comments on your code. You can download Code Annotat...

My learnings while becoming a conference speaker

Before everything In 2020, before the pandemic hit us, I had included in my life goals to attend a tech conference. With COVID and most of the conferences being canceled or postponed, I thought thi...

How to sleep... in different programming languages

Every now and then, as a developer, we need to add a sleep in our code. Usually to make some test work, or god knows the reason. In particular, I use this a lot in Tcl, as this is the primary langu...