How (and why) to use useEffect's cleanup - Intervals
Using setInterval with useEffect can be confusing. Often they will overlap, or use stale data. We can prevent this by properly clearing the intervals inside useEffect's cleanup function.
The 7 wastes of Contemporary Agile Software Development Teams
What the greatest sources of waste in modern agile development teams? Fede shared his perspective in Agiles 2021. This post is a brief summary of it.
Croquet
Croquet.io es una tecnología de sincronización de eventos, ideada para crear software colaborativo y en tiempo real. Actualmente el proyecto se enfoca en una librería de javascript (que se lanzó en septiembre de 2021). Pero previamente hubo versiones en Smalltalk.
Contando colaboraciones en Cuis Smalltalk
¿Qué tan difícil resultaría hacer un programa que cuente colaboraciones de un método? En Smalltalk, no tan difícil.
Nuestra web, nuestros componentes
Hoy en día seguimos discutiendo la ganancia de generar nuestra propia librería de componentes de UI. Sin embargo, son estas las abstracciones que hacen que ciertos aspectos cobren el protagonismo que merecen; como por ejemplo: la accesibilidad de nuestras aplicaciones.
Machine Learning for everybody 2: Back to machine school
Previously, on “Machine Learning for everybody”, we talked about what machine learning is and why it’s nice to have. In this episode we’ll ramble on about how a computer can learn things, or rather how you may teach them.
Nuestra Señora Del Upgrade – Una fábula sobre código
–Señora mía, necesito tu favor –rezaba la función–. Mi sistema anda mal. Se cae todo el tiempo. Cada tanto nos visita algún programador, y se ve perdido en nuestro laberinto de confusión. ¿Qué se puede hacer? –Hija mía –dijo una voz antigua–. No estás sola. Solo estás confundida.
Chernobyl Driven Development: 10 lessons learnt from the miniseries
Inspired by the success of the series about the Chernobyl disaster, these are 10 lessons learnt from it so you too can make sure your project is a bomb.
Virtual DOM: ReactJS implementation
How does the Virtual DOM work? And what is actually the DOM? If you ever have wondered about those questions, this post is for you.
Frontend frameworks: Criteria & tips to become proficient with new tools
The goal of this post isn't to analyze which framework is better, but to provide a set of tools and a couple of tips to ease the learning of a new framework In
The Many Facets Of Quality
Some time ago, in a talk, someone asked "What is software quality, what gives quality to software?". My immediate half-joking answer was "Software shouldn't get in my way, that's quality!
How, What, Why: The three essences of software development
"Facebook is as much sociology and psychology as it is technology" - Mark Zuckerberg In my previous article, Unitary vs Integral Understanding, I delved into how we understand a part of
Organizational Debt and The Romantic Dev
Introduction While thinking what I could write about, I remembered a distant sunny afternoon, back at the beginning of my professional experience. I left writings about what is now a possible future post
How to gently upgrade your Java application
When I think about getting an upgrade I usually picture myself like this: But… as the time passes… I feel like Homer applying for the university, something like: Since in 10Pines we reached
Essence-driven Development
Something that has always seemed motivating is the feeling that my way of doing things generally maintained good adaptability. Throughout my years of study at the University, and later in 10pines, I realized
Two ways we understand code: Unitary vs Integral understanding
There is an often unresolved question in software about comments and documentation. It is said that code should be "self-documenting", thus comments can be a sign of a lack of clarity in the code.