Software Engineer and all things technology enthusiast 🤖
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Joined August 2011
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Jorge A. Borges retweeted
Software engineering fundamentals are more important now than ever. I don't care what any influencer or CTO has said.
Good fundamentals means you can direct AI to write more productive code for you.
Bad fundamentals means your AI-written code will be a liability.
Jorge A. Borges retweeted
In 1990, as Voyager 1 was leaving the solar system, Sagan fought a long internal battle at NASA to turn the cameras around one last time to photograph Earth. Many engineers opposed it, fearing it might damage the cameras or waste time.
But Sagan’s successful effort resulted in the "Pale Blue Dot" image. He used this tiny, 0.12-pixel speck of Earth to write his famous reflection on how "every human being who ever was" lived on that "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam".
Jorge A. Borges retweeted
It's so much more interesting focusing on things that are unfashionable, undervalued, overlooked. And there are so many of them! People are great at overlooking.
Jorge A. Borges retweeted
If you're inexperienced, don't try to pretend you're not. It will fool no one and make you look ridiculous. Instead just be openly curious. This will seem natural instead of awkward, and you'll learn a lot more.
Jorge A. Borges retweeted
This iconic photograph is still considered one of the most-terrifying space photographs to date. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human being to do a spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. In 1984, he floated completely untethered in space with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive.
Are you curious about LangChain or LangGraph? This recent video by one of their engineers provides a clear, high-level introduction that explains their use cases. youtube.com/watch?v=q1gXyyLk…
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While the SOLID principles are valuable for designing object-oriented software, I've found the IDEALS principles explained in this article to be an excellent guideline that I keep revisiting for microservice architecture 👍
infoq.com/articles/microserv…
I've been doing lately @kentcdodds course on React Performance, truly a goldmine of good advice!🌟
For example, it explains how to measure and optimize your JS, so it doesn't block the browser's main thread for too long, breaking the smooth 60 frames a second user experience.
Jorge A. Borges retweeted
Picard management tip: The truth is that sometimes you just won't know the right thing to do. You still have to try.
Jorge A. Borges retweeted
We are not optimizing to reduce the number of lines, we are optimizing for readability and maintainability.
Jorge A. Borges retweeted
Looking up and thinking of you all back home. Here's what Earth looks like from my point of view on the surface of Mars.
Even though we're apart, we can still be together, online. Please join me in observing #EarthDayAtHome with these @NASA activities: go.nasa.gov/3b2oBO4
