Alejandro Navas articles - 11 total
wyr: Typesafe Dependency Injection for TypeScript (and why I built it)
I’ve wired up enough services in TypeScript to know the pain of the usual contenders: sprawling...
The Cult of Shipping Fast Is Killing Your Code
Most developers are mediocre. Not average. Mediocre. As in: they write code that only works because...
DDD Without the Tactical Patterns
Or: Why Suffixing Classes Entity Doesn't Make You Strategic Let’s get straight to the...
My time on GDX/Undertrail
When I joined the company in September 2015, the cracks were already showing—not in the people, but...
Simplicity’s Irony: When inaccurate modeling creates needless complexity
As you can tell, I'm obsessed with simplicity. Most articles I write talk about the problems of both...
Dev Teams are not a democracy
I’ve been interviewing for leadership-heavy roles lately. And while I do have experience leading,...
Leadership without authority: How I stepped up without stepping over
I once belonged to a team that lacked a more present leadership. It wasn’t that leadership was...
My Quantum Regrets
A few years ago, I decided to tattoo the results of the double-slit experiment on my arms: an...
My DNA
I take pride in my work. I’m a high-impact developer with a strong grasp of system design,...
Simple ain't easy
"Keep It Simple, Stupid." "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." "Perfect is the enemy of...
Letter to my team: Fighting software decay
Hey Team, I want to talk to you today about a hidden killer that lurks in every codebase: software...