Strategies to manage Technical Debt - Part 1
Sometimes teams struggle to identify which technical debt items are worth investing into, or how to align them to company goals. We recently had some inter...
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2020
Feedback and Sandwiches
I saw something at Basecamp’s “How we communicate” guide that made me think about the classic sandwich when delivering bad news/feedback, so I decided to sha...
Learning to write addons for Elder Scrolls Online
I always use my hobbies to learn stuff, and I decided that I wanted to learn how Elder Scrolls Online designed addons, API and UI, so I jumped straight into...
Customizing k8s plugins autocomplete on bash and zsh
In this post I’ll configuring a default k8s installation to integrate with bash/zsh autocomplete, and add those autocomplete features on a couple of k8s plug...
2019
Using Gradle Kotlin DSL with junit 5
Gradle 5 has been out for a while now and with that we finally got the ability to write our Gradle scripts in Kotlin. How can I migrate my JUnit-enabled Grad...
Refactoring the coding interview
I switched jobs recently, and I found myself doing some interviews. Some code assignments are too demanding for some candidates. I’ll talk from my recent e...
2018
Kotlin Elvis operator is not a ternary
Last week, I was late at work and as soon as I entered the room, some coworkers shouted: “Hey, over here, we’ve found a bug in Kotlin!”
Setting up a Windows workstation for a 2018 technology stack
I failed to adapt using a Mac laptop. +20 years of typing on a standard PC keyboard was too much, so I decided to try to create a full work station on a Wind...
JUnit 5 unit testing with Kotlin
At Returnly, we are using, among others, JUnit Jupiter to test our back-end services. There is some lack of documentation and examples, so I will setup some ...
Mockk messing up with the JVM
Ok, this is a story with a happy beginning. Or ending. Or both.
Having fun with Kotlin delegates
I have been learning Kotlin lately, and I have been playing with delegates and reified functions. By using composition over inheritance, we’ll compose some c...
So how is it working at a Silicon Valley startup? (from a Spaniard point of view)
I already had been in the loop a couple of times. So when the headhunter told me it was a long and exhausting process I was not surprised. A month later I wa...
So here I am
Bio and introduction. This is me!