Ricardo Lopes

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Against Overly Defensive Coding

Defensive coding is important to prevent bugs, but there's such a thing as being too defensive

Styling Your RSS For a Better Web

You can improve RSS user experience by styling your RSS feeds with XSLT for a better, open web

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.

Document Your Code Through Version Control

How using existing processes and tools can massively improve documentation and give you debugging superpowers

I Changed My Mind About Remote Communication

I used to believe remote communication was a difficult trade-off, until I found where it excelled.

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.

Being Uplifting

It's up to us to decide how we want to react to everything that is wrong around us.

Resist Exploding Complexity

Building web applications seems to be getting more and more complex. But does it have to be this way?

About This Blog

This is where I'm sharing a collection of thoughts, experiments, wise advice from my mentors, notes on things I'm reading, and more.