a door into my engineering journey

it might come as a joke but: a physicist, a chemist and a software engineer walk into a bar. what do they do?

turns out all three are me and what they do is start an engineering blog at the height of blogging in the middle of 2024.

definitely i look like a loser. hey, i’m willing to take that. it has an explanation though so bear with me:

i never have enough and i know for certain i want to build my own stuff. you know. my company. my product. my team. it is not easy, i know, so what? that makes it all the fun. anyway i have realized that before getting to that, i need to build a platform for my character, so why not just gather the whole journey in a blog? the good thing is nobody has to read it for it to be considered as a platform - i guess, right?

what you’ll find here

this blog is my engineering playground where i share:

• technical deep dives: expect code samples, architecture decisions, and lessons learned the hard way
• building in public: following my journey creating software that (hopefully) doesn’t completely suck
• adventures in go: because i’ve seen the light, and it’s statically typed
• random engineering thoughts: sometimes coherent, often not

why lowercase?

because shift keys are overrated and i’m lazy. also, it looks kinda cool. i think.

recent posts

check out what i’ve been rambling about lately:

• testcontainers 101 - making integration tests suck less
• the meta post - how this blog came to be (spoiler: i tried django first)

what’s coming

i’m working on some cool stuff that i can’t wait to share:

• more testcontainers goodness
• building and scaling api services
• performance optimization adventures
• probably some spectacular failures to learn from

stick around

if you’re into software engineering that’s more pragmatic than perfect, you might enjoy hanging out here. i promise to keep it real, occasionally useful, and mercifully free of those inspirational linkedin posts about how i wake up at 4am to meditate while coding.

whatever, thanks for stopping by