Refactoring Legacy Code: A New Hope
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I opened a 2,000‑line file called report_generator.py . It was a monster that had been pa…
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Clean Code: The Fellowship of the Function
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I opened a legacy repository and saw a function called handleStuff() . Inside, there were…
The Refactor Awakens: A Practical Guide to Pure Functions
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I opened a legacy service that felt like a haunted house. Every corridor was a 200‑line f…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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 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…