Point It Out, Propose It 🛠️
Pointing out problems is easy and takes little effort. Understanding, proposing, validating and implementing is what actually creates value. On the difference between those who criticize and those who contribute.
bruno@web:~$ whoami
Bruno
Software engineer. I write about performance, .NET and the inner workings of systems that scale.
the series
Path to Staff
16 chapters
A chapter-by-chapter guide to grow from developer to Staff Engineer — career, system design, influence, and the behind-the-scenes of promotions.
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The Power of a Skill 🛠️
Everyone has opened an AI, asked for something, gotten a response, and moved on to the next task. The problem is that's only scratching the surface. Skills turn repetitive routines into recipes the AI can run on its own, from financial closing to investigating a bug in production.
Jumping on Grenades 💣
In war, when a grenade lands in the middle of the group, someone runs, someone just watches, and someone jumps on it. The same scene repeats every day in tech — and choosing to be the one who jumps is what accelerates a career the most.
The Next-Day Doctor 🩺
An exhausted doctor saves a patient at dawn. The next day another one, well rested, reads the chart and finds it all simple. The same scene plays out every day with legacy code. On judging decisions without knowing the context they were made in.
The Invisible Monster 👹
Deadlines that never close, deliveries that slip, endless problems. Almost always the fault isn't technical — it's everything we let slide. A conversation about the invisible monster that sabotages teams.
Spec-Driven Development — What we should have been doing all along, even without AI 🚀
Every time a new "buzzword" pops up in the development world, I notice a curious pattern: the community discovers, with an air of novelty, something that…