https://rplopes.com Tech lead and backend engineer focused on architecting and building secure and scalable services en https://rplopes.com/blog/overly-defensive-coding/ https://rplopes.com/blog/overly-defensive-coding/ Defensive coding is important to prevent bugs, but there's such a thing as being too defensive Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rplopes.com/blog/styling-rss/ https://rplopes.com/blog/styling-rss/ You can improve RSS user experience by styling your RSS feeds with XSLT for a better, open web Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rplopes.com/blog/stop-trying-to-fix-technical-debt/ https://rplopes.com/blog/stop-trying-to-fix-technical-debt/ Technical debt is an almost useless term that is holding us back. Instead of fixing technical debt, we should be focused on fixing actual problems. Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rplopes.com/blog/document-your-code-through-version-control/ https://rplopes.com/blog/document-your-code-through-version-control/ How using existing processes and tools can massively improve documentation and give you debugging superpowers Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rplopes.com/blog/remote-communication/ https://rplopes.com/blog/remote-communication/ I used to believe remote communication was a difficult trade-off, until I found where it excelled. Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rplopes.com/blog/no-surprises/ https://rplopes.com/blog/no-surprises/ Things should be exactly where we expect them to be, and look exactly like what we expect them to look like. Code should do exactly what we expect it to do. Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rplopes.com/blog/being-uplifting/ https://rplopes.com/blog/being-uplifting/ It's up to us to decide how we want to react to everything that is wrong around us. Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rplopes.com/blog/resist-exploding-complexity/ https://rplopes.com/blog/resist-exploding-complexity/ Building web applications seems to be getting more and more complex. But does it have to be this way? Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://rplopes.com/blog/about/ https://rplopes.com/blog/about/ This is where I'm sharing a collection of thoughts, experiments, wise advice from my mentors, notes on things I'm reading, and more. Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT