In school and college professors love to ask for “research papers” from their students. Truth is that sometimes they do not even read all of them (who has the time to carefully read thirty 5-page papers, right?). So let’s cut to the chase and learn how to write one without…

The software industry is obsessed with the notion of “years of experience in languages/frameworks/libraries” to determine the seniority of a candidate. They do not care if someone deep-dived into it and did amazing stuff in just 1 year with that technology. They just want to hear 5, 8, or 10…

The following article is not medical or nutritional advice, just a recollection of my experience with intermittent fasting. Usually, I’m not very fond of trending practices related to health. And there are lots of them. Like following a ketogenic diet that promotes eating a lot of protein from livestock, or…

Lots of companies make their developer candidates code example projects or “take-home tests”. On iOS camp, it’s usually a variation of the same silly app: One that consumes a REST endpoint, shows a result on a list, and has a detail-view for each of the results. The most simple version…

I looked into his lively eyes, not sure of what to say to him. He was a thirteen years old boy asking his best friend the promise of being always honest with each other. For him, I was Jim, in the same way that I was someone else for other…

TL; DR: Doing things super slow is better than staying in bed wishing to be a more energetic person. I would love to be one of those energetic people that jump off the bed before sunrise, get ready in ten minutes, make a healthy breakfast and go out for a…

TL; DR: If you understand weight loss as a small part of having a great body and a great life, exercise is not a corner you want to cut. Some time ago, I learned diet is more important than exercise for weight loss. This impacted me. …