InPredictbySérgio Serra·Feb 9The Internet’s Reality Distortion FieldDuring Mac’s development, Steve Jobs asked engineer Larry Kenyon to reduce the boot time by 10 seconds. Kenyon said it was impossible.
InPredictbySérgio Serra·Aug 28, 2025Once Upon a Time Computers Were Humans100 years ago, a computer was nothing more than a job description. It referred to people who performed mathematical operations.
InPredictbySérgio Serra·Apr 15, 2023Keyboards and Autonomous CarsTechnology has evolved to the point where we put a man on the Moon, we have autonomous cars and AI capable of understanding human language…A response icon3A response icon3
InPredictbySérgio Serra·Feb 13, 2023The Future is not TodayThe thing about these opinions that underestimate this technology, is that they are wrong because they don’t understand the true nature…
IncodeburstbySérgio Serra·Feb 10, 2022Redefining Legacy CodeThe discussion around legacy code are based on obsolete definitions.
Sérgio Serra·Jan 16, 2022Creativity in a Remote WorldSteve Jobs decided to build the bathrooms in the Pixar headquarters right in the atrium of the building so people would be forced to walk…A response icon2A response icon2
IncodeburstbySérgio Serra·Dec 8, 2018Reflections on Progressive Web Apps part 1: the adoption problemLast week I had been in Conf.land talking about PWA’s. After my presentation I talked with some people and most of them eventually asked…
IncodeburstbySérgio Serra·May 14, 2018Using git hooks to enforce PSR-2 on modified codeYou probably noticed the nuance on the article title: “modified code”.
IncodeburstbySérgio Serra·Apr 28, 2018Is unit test coverage a real quality metric?No.A response icon1A response icon1
IncodeburstbySérgio Serra·Apr 6, 2018MySQL optimize InnoDB storage usageLarge databases usually mean large amount of storage used. This is not a problem, it’s just the way it is and storage is cheap.A response icon1A response icon1