@mnavarrocarter
Senior Software Engineer
I'm a Chilean Software Engineer living in the United Kingdom, specifically in the cold and beautiful north coast of Northern Ireland. I moved here in March 2020 -- yes, at the very start of a global pandemic! -- with my wife Briony and our cat Pua to be closer to her side of the family.
Originally a History B.A., I made the career switch around 2015 once I discovered how fun and intellectually stimulating Engineering is. Apart from building useful stuff other people can use, I love sharing what I've learned and hearing what others have learned too.
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Nov 15, 2023 · 11 min read · There are many definitions of scaling around there, but I like this very simple one: Scaling a business means setting the stage to enable and support growth. The goal is growth (who doesn't want their business to grow?), however, the key idea here ...
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Sep 27, 2023 · 7 min read · I was just browsing LinkedIn this morning (because yeah, that's what I do on holidays apparently) and I got to this post, for which the author got a lot of undeserved criticism. I tried to jump in defense of the author, mainly because he was trying t...
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Aug 3, 2023 · 13 min read · The Nasty U in CRUD Before anything else, let's just do a quick recap on what CRUD is. CRUD stands for "Create-Read-Update-Delete" which are, in turn, the four basic operations of data storage. It's usually used as an adjective to describe a system. ...
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Jul 7, 2023 · 13 min read · 💡 This is an old article that I wrote a few years ago in one of my many blogs and got lost somewhere until someone mentioned it on Github. Since it has been useful to others, I decided to republish it here and give it a small update. Enjoy! The re...
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Apr 3, 2023 · 2 min read · I've written about this already in a previous post, but I think it deserves a post of its own. I think it is time we stop appending the word Interface to our interfaces name. It is just completely unnecessary. The same goes for anything similar: prep...
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