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The Feedback Trap: Why Good Work is not Enough

The Feedback Trap: Why Good Work is not Enough

I do not know if I am getting too old or if it just took too long to hit me, but your career, and sometimes your life, often depends entirely on third parties. It does not matter how good you are at what you do. It does not matter how

Beyond the Upside Down: Bringing D&D to the Next Generation

Beyond the Upside Down: Bringing D&D to the Next Generation

Last year marked the final season of a Netflix series I loved: Stranger Things. The 80s nostalgia, the music, the kids on bicycles. It all mirrored my own experience growing up in the mid and late-90s. It hit me hard, but it also made me realize I missed something

From Student Leader to Career Politician: A Portrait of a Broken System

From Student Leader to Career Politician: A Portrait of a Broken System

Public service should be a vocation, a temporary chapter where you bring outside skills, professional independence, and an independent livelihood to the table. But across Latin America, and acutely in Venezuela, a broken system has twisted it into an emergency employment plan. It creates a dangerous class of people: "

Designing my attention: defaults over discipline

Designing my attention: defaults over discipline

Every day we are bombarded with petabytes of information. Not only on the internet and social media keeping up with the world news and latest trends and memes and, lately, we all must keep up with the constantly evolving GenAI world that has taken over the world. There's

Structuring RESTful URLs

Structuring RESTful URLs

If you haven't been following my blog and just stumbled upon this post, this is the 6th article on my series about designing REST APIs, you can read the rest here. If, on the other hand you've been following and you like what you've

Understanding Core REST principles

Understanding Core REST principles

When people talk about REST, they often focus on surface level characteristics: URLs that look clean, JSON payloads, and HTTP verbs used “correctly”. While these elements are visible and important, they are not what makes an API RESTful and it’s not what REST is all about. REST is defined

A Decade Later: Microservices After the Hype

A Decade Later: Microservices After the Hype

A few years ago I wrote a blog post titled “My take on microservices”. I cannot believe it has been almost a decade, nine years to be precise, since I published it. It is still accessible on my old blog via this link if you want to read it. My