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The power of reduce

Reduce() is one of the most unintuitive functions, and yet it's so flexible that most of the array functions can be written using reduce()

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Engineering manager interviews

In this video and article I'm talking about how to prepare for engineering manager interview

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Python gotchas for JavaScript developers

Python and JavaScript are close languages, yet they have a couple of surprising differences. In this article I list and explain a few of them

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We moved to async stand-ups and never looked back

I tried improving stand-ups in 3 different companies. Here's how it went and why I believe async stand-up is a good idea

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How to mentor bootcamp graduates

This post was inspired by "How Dev Bootcamps Are Failing Their Students" by Tyler Hawkins (and yeah, I started writing it 3 months ago, something something about unfinished projects). Software development bootcamps have passed their hype stage and now they're somewhere around the trough of disillusionment and the plateau of

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Beyond semantic versioning

An idea on how to improve software versioning and managing dependencies came to my mind a few days ago. I'm yet to figure out how it would exactly work, but I thought I'd share it first.

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Why Python has won among dynamic languages

Recently I've been reflecting on the (loosely defined) quality and popularity of programing languages. Despite growing appreciation for static typing and compilers (whether in fully-compiled languages like Java or with JIT recently introduced in PHP or Ruby), 2 dynamic, scripting languages pushed their way up in the popularity rankings in

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12 ways to call a method in Ruby

A fun little experiment where I try to call the same method in Ruby in as many ways as possible