Onboarding as an Engineer in the Age of AI
This is the first time I’ve onboarded at a company while modern LLM capabilities are readily available. The experience has been different…
Curious software engineer focused on craftsmanship and simple, thoughtful products. At Buffer, I work with a fully remote team building tools that help creators and small businesses plan, publish, and analyze their social media so they can grow and connect with their communities.
Improvising bits and melodies @diegocasmo.
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Intent-First Software
LLMs taught users they can state intent in plain language and watch software act. Expectations shifted quickly. By intent, I mean describing…
Reducing Type Overhead with Lazy Evaluation in TypeScript
When working on large TypeScript codebases, it’s easy to introduce performance issues through how types are written. One case we ran into…
Simple Next.js Magic Link JWT Authentication with Prisma, PostgreSQL, and Resend
When building web applications, authentication is almost always a core requirement. I needed something simple and secure that would let me…
Our Most Valuable Asset
In life and work, it’s important to make a conscious decision to declutter our minds and focus on what interests us the most. It is through…
Consistent Client-side Interaction with API Endpoints Using Axios and React Query
At Remote, Axios and React Query are used to build the “data layer” and interact with API endpoints. The combination of these two libraries…
Email and Password Based Authentication with Expo and Firebase Part 3 - Sign In, Forgot Password, and Update Password
This is part 3/3 of a series of blog posts that showcase email and password based authentication using Expo and Firebase. Part 1: Project…
Email and Password Based Authentication with Expo and Firebase Part 2 - Sign up, Email Verification, and Sign Out
This is part 2/3 of a series of blog posts that showcase email and password based authentication using Expo and Firebase. Part 1: Project…
Email and Password Based Authentication with Expo and Firebase Part 1 - Project Setup
This is part 1/3 of a series of blog posts that showcase email and password based authentication using Expo and Firebase. Part 1: Project…
Create a Simple React Timer Component
I have recently been developing a workout application during my spare time. One of the requirements I set for it was to create a timer so…
Using Postgres Enum Type in Rails
Last week I wrote Using Active Support Concerns to Encapsulate Data Access and Validation, where I explained how to use Active Support…
Using Active Support Concerns to Encapsulate Data Access and Validation
Recently, I had to implement a feature that introduced the concept of currency to an API. Users of the API could create different type of…
OKRs as a Framework for Personal Growth
A couple of years ago I worked for a company where Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) were used as a framework to track objectives and key…
IAM Dataset Writer Recognition Using a CNN
During the past few days I have been studying how to identify the author of a text based on their writing styles. Fortunately, I found the…
Convolutional Neural Networks For Galaxy Morphology Classification
Last semester a group of classmates and I had the opportunity to tackle the “Galaxy Zoo Challenge” by Kaggle as a project for a machine…
A Short List of Good Practices in Programming
Writing software is more than simply creating an application that fulfills its requirements; it has to be created to be maintainable, robust…
A Simple React Tabs Component
A client of mine recently gave me the task to code a feature which included designing tabs similar to those of Bootstrap. The client side of…
Navigation Redirects Through Redux Middleware
Routing in client-side applications usually starts off as a small number of routes with a few redirects or custom code here and there. But…
Using React's Context to Pass Variables From the Server to the Client
I recently got hired by I client to create a new functionality for a single page application. The client wanted the marketing team of the…
VirtualBox Shared Folders + SSH from OSX Host to Ubuntu Server Guest Tutorial
VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product that allows an unmodified operating system with all of its installed software to run in a…
The Basics of TypeScript
Recently, I started working for a new client who uses TypeScript for both client and server side development. I had previously worked with…
An Introduction to Data Mining
Decision making might be one of the most common yet more difficult things to do. When doing so, we have to make sure we are being as…
Improving Application Performance and Responsiveness on the Client
Performance and responsiveness on client side applications are very important topics which usually don’t receive much attention until they…
Getting Started With Acceptance Testing
At Ubiqua, as we started to grow both our product and engineering team, we realized some things had to be re-prioritized and fixed. Some of…
Depth First Search In Undirected Graphs
Chapter 3 and 4 of the book Algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C. H. Papadimitriou, and U. V. Vazirani focus on graphs. A graph is specified as a…
The Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm
The last section on the divide-and-conquer design paradigm on the book Algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C. H. Papadimitriou, and U. V. Vazirani…
The Merge Sort Algorithm
The next algorithm in the divide-and-conquer design paradigm chapter the book examines is the merge sort algorithm. Sorting problems are…
The Karatsuba Multiplication Algorithm
Over the past few months, I have developed an interest for Artificial Intelligence (specifically Machine Learning in the form of data mining…
Backbone Required Attributes
backbone-required-attributes is a view helper to enforce specific view constructor parameters. Its goal is to help designing Backbone.js…
Simple BDD Backbone Views
Backbone.js is a small Javascript library which helps give structure to web applications. In contrast to the many other front end…