The NonFunctional Dev

10-30-2024

You don’t want to have five years of experience in any framework

Code Quality, My Stories, System Design

Frameworks as an Entry Point When many of us start our development careers—especially in web development—frameworks feel like what we have to go for. We often begin by choosing a programming language (the “easier” of course) and then pick a popular framework. For instance, I began with Python and naturally moved on to Django, following […]
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9-25-2024

What Should Stay and What Should Go: A Practical Guide for Refactoring Code

Code Quality

Let’s be honest: as developers, we’ve all written bad code at some point. Whether it’s due to deadlines, unclear requirements, or just oversight, code quality often suffers. Eventually, we’ll face the inevitable—going back to refactor or remove that bad code, which is especially true in startups where speed is preferred. (Deep breath—it’s normal.) This article […]
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9-3-2024

What does this ‘x’ mean?

Code Quality, My Stories

In my early days as an Electronic engineering student, I started to create small algorithms in C++ to solve these little things, such as calculate the area of a triangle. Here’s a very simple piece of code: At that very moment, as someone who is always worried about communication, I thought, what about this version? […]
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