Break down silos with a walking skeleton 💀 latest
A walking skeleton forces developers to talk, aligning both code and teams from day one.
#designpattern
Posts that describe or discusses a design pattern, a common way to solve a certain problem given a certain context.
(The classic book Design Patterns is one of the books that shaped me.)
2025
Refactoring early returns to pattern matching 🔀
Early returns can be seen as a form of pattern matching.
2024
The power of collection pipelines 💪
An example of how collection pipelines can help solving an Advent of Code problem.
Barricade + choke point 🛡️
Two design patterns that I’ve found helpful when designing systems to deal with untrusted data.
Algebraic data types 🧩
·14 mins
Compose types and use them to represent complex data in a clean and type safe way.
There is no loop 🥄
Learn to move from imperative
while and for loops to declarative collection functions like map and filter.
Constructors and creation methods 🏗️
Use creation methods when a constructor fails to fully capture the programmer’s intent.
Remove temporal dependencies ⏰
How to avoid “temporal dependencies” where things must be done in a certain order.
2012
Extract the logic (what’s left is glue)
To make code easier to understand and test, try to move complex logic away from code with many dependencies.