Journal

Final stretch for ITsoup's Organization service, De-Google-ifying my life, retiring YouTube account, and given better purpose to Twitch account.

Two new articles, first beta of ITsoup's Organization Domain Service, enrollment on GitHub's sponsor program, and the end of my vacations.

New blog system infrastructure, GitHub actions, ITsoup's first service MVP and a new season for Laravel-Portugal Podcast.

The very first post of a new series I intend to do weekly. Twitch and YouTube account decisions, new article, and a new approach for ITsoup.

Wow! That's the perfect word to describe my 2019. So far, my best year ever!At WorkMy 2019 started with me leaving TBFiles and joining Infraspeak. The change came as

Yeah, it sucks. Last week I tried to contribute to Mohammed Said's Wink Laravel package (https://github.com/writingink/wink) in order to make it use the Laravel's default auth

A few days back I had the need to run Deployer, a deployment tool for PHP, on an isolated container. This was to avoiding keeping it, as a dependency, on

It's no surprise to anyone who knows me that I've been very disappointed with Apple's Macintosh products. The hardware has gotten next-to-zero valuable updates, except on the prices (got higher,

Hey there. How was your day? So, today, was the Sprint Retrospective. We digressed about all situations, good and bad, about this sprint. I won't share details, of course, but

Hey there! How was your day? Another interesting conversation between the Team, at Infraspeak, today. We discussed why our story points' estimates were constantly off. We program each Sprint to

Hey there, how was your day? Today I continued my work on the report class. I don't think I've said this before but this is the main feature to be

Hey there! How was your weekend? Ready for another week full of opportunities? I had an amazing discussion with my colleague Gonçalo, today. We discussed when to be proactive and

Hey there! How was your weekend? Ready for another week full of opportunities? Today I started my day reading the powerful, insightful and intriguing book "Clean Code", by Robert C.

Hey there! What have you been up to? I passed all day working on a report class, which will be responsible to fetch, and process, all maintenance work done in

I finally finished all my tasks regarding the implementation of the code sniffers and fixers on all my teammates' computers and advanced to other, more challenging tasks. The one I'm

Today was a very calm day. I finally confirmed that the code sniffers and fixers are configured on all of my teammates' computers. I continue observing how they're reacting to

Today was an interesting day. I found out I already have a (very) small audience! I've been aware that a few of my colleagues, including my CTO, Luis Martins, have

The main tasks assigned to me are associated with documenting and helping my teammates implement code sniffers and fixers, to help keep our codebase in line with the current PSR-2

Everybody loves Friday, right? I've no special reaction to Friday, really. I love what I do, so I'm always enjoying my days. However, weekends are when I spend a little

Today was one of those nice and quiet days, where nothing really notorious happens. It was a thematic day (like a hackathon), dedicated to resolving a type of issues that

Yesterday, after I published the daily blog post, I received a few e-mails regarding a pull request I made. The specific commit removed a call to Auth::login() since my

Two major things happened today: I did overpass the difficulty I talked about, on yesterday's daily blog post, and the Team discussed the strategy for the next 3 weeks. Regarding

Last month I announced that I'd be changing companies, leaving TBFiles and join Infraspeak. Since that, a lot more has changed in my life. First, I've also changed to a

If you follow my work, you know I've been working on a company called TBFiles since the first trimester of this year. However, on January 2019, I'll start working on