SRP and the Hero's Journey: Writing Code Like a Jedi Master
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I opened a legacy codebase and felt like I’d walked into the Death Star’s trash compactor…
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SINGLE RESPONSIBILITY PRINCIPLE
SINGLE RESPONSIBILITY PRINCIPLE (SRP) A class should have one, and exclusively one , reason to change. In other words, we shouldn't have a single clas…
Git: The Fellowship of the Commit – Best Practices for Solo Devs and Teams
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I tried to track down a bug that only showed up after midnight. I opened my terminal, typ…
Explain It To Me Like I'm... Well... Me, But Dumber
I once knew a guy who derived great pride from writing clever code... All variable names were reduced to single characters because "long variable name…
May the Strategy Be With You: A Dev’s Quest to Slay the If‑Else Dragon
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember the first time I opened a legacy payment module and saw a monster‑sized if/else chain stretching over a …
Dear Beginner Developer
It's okay if you don't know everything. It's okay if your code isn't perfect. It's okay if your first few internship applications get rejected. Every …
Dead Code kills silently
Unused JavaScript is like cancer — it kills slowly. It accumulates quietly over the course of years, release by release, and by the time anyone notice…
🚀 Released a New Version of jsdoc-scribe
Keeping documentation updated is difficult, especially when projects continue to grow. To make this easier, I've been building jsdoc-scribe, an open-s…
Form validation without Formik or React Hook Form: treat your rules as domain logic
We've all been here. A new form shows up, you install React Hook Form, add Zod or Yup, and in ten minutes you have something that "works." The problem…
Stop circular dependencies before they stop you — dependency-cruiser & the Stable Dependencies Principle
Circular dependencies are one of those bugs that feel harmless right up until they aren't. No build error. No runtime exception on import. Just a subt…
Your Code Review Is Working Perfectly. It Just Cannot Catch What Was Never Defined.
The review process did everything right. Someone opened the pull request. Someone else read through it carefully. The logic was sound. The tests passe…
The Clean Code Handbook: How to Write Better Code for Agile Software Development
Building scalable software applications demands writing clean code that’s so simple that any dev can understand it. In this article, I’ll explain and …
Refactoring Legacy Code: The Jedi Move of Extracting Pure Functions
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Picture this: I’m deep in a codebase that looks like the junkyard planet from Star Wars —tangled wires, rusted droids, an…
The Dependency Injection Quest: How I Turned Spaghetti Code Into a Lightsaber 🚀
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Picture this: I’m knee‑deep in a legacy codebase that feels like the Death Star’s trash compactor—every time I try to add…
Design Principles of Software: A Real-World Notification System in Go
By Sergio Colque Ponce — Software Engineering, Universidad Privada de Tacna. Full source code: github.com/srg-cp/design-principles-go When people say …
Why I don’t feel the excitement when coding now, unlike before because of AI?
A little ironic that the header image was generated using AI, but oh well... Before, when I create a game, I would go to countless YouTube tutorials. …
Flutter Clean Architecture Guide 2026 – Complete Folder Structure
Flutter Clean Architecture is the industry standard for building scalable, testable, and maintainable mobile apps. This guide walks you through a prod…
Securing Your Spring Boot Architecture: A Pragmatic Approach with Clprolf
Introduction Spring Boot is an incredible framework. It gives developers immense freedom to build and scale applications quickly. However, in large te…
The One TDD Habit That Saved My Sanity (and My Codebase)
The One TDD Habit That Saved My Sanity (and My Codebase) Quick context (why you're writing this) Here's the thing: I used to think I was doing TDD rig…
Guard Clauses: The Tiny Habit That Saved My Sanity
Guard Clauses: The Tiny Habit That Saved My Sanity Quick context (why you're writing this) Here's the thing: I was once handed a legacy payment‑proces…
When One Enum Is Secretly Two
I was one commit away from a bug that would never have thrown an error. My system keeps every closed vocabulary in a single file — one source of truth…
The Code Nobody Will Delete
At the bottom of every long-lived codebase is a function nobody has called in three years. Above it is a commented-out block from a refactor that was …
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Feature Based Clean Architecture. Part 4: FBCA: Formalizing Responsibility Boundaries in a NestJS Module
An architectural doctrine for NestJS projects: a breakdown of typical codebase degradation scenarios and the structural constraints that keep them fro…
Feature Based Clean Architecture. Part 3: The Architectural Risk of Cycles in NestJS: ROI of Decisions on a Five-Year Horizon
An architectural doctrine for NestJS projects: a breakdown of typical codebase degradation scenarios and the structural constraints that keep them fro…
Feature Based Clean Architecture. Part 2: Decomposition into Services: An Analysis of the Approach's Limits
An architectural doctrine for NestJS projects: a breakdown of typical codebase degradation scenarios and the structural constraints that keep them fro…
Feature Based Clean Architecture. Part 1: How a NestJS Application Evolves Into an Unmaintainable State
An architectural doctrine for NestJS projects: a breakdown of typical codebase degradation scenarios and the structural constraints that keep them fro…