“I tell him to walk forward. He walks forward. I tell him, ‘On your knees.’ And I just shoot him in the head.” A Russian soldier spoke with a reporter from Важные истории — and confessed to murdering a Ukrainian civilian. occrp.org/en/investigati…

Your feed may give you the impression that the war is over, but it is not. Luckily the missile was intercepted this time.

Subtweeting a friend who's always sending links to chats without annotations. Even when you're confident of the quality and relevance of the content, please add a few words on what you found helpful. Personal touch brings 10x value.

Treat unresolved comments in your tech and product specifications as tech debt. roman.pt/posts/resolve-…

Google's code review guide for authors and reviewers google.github.io/eng-practices/…

The best part about the Portuguese language and culture is that you don't say, "I drink coffee." Instead, you "take it" as you take medicine. Makes total sense.

After using AWS for ~14 years, I've internalised a handful of design patterns that I try to apply to my own software. I'm keen to know if it's the same for other folks. Roughly: tags, IDs (thrice), limits, pagination. (I'm not going to use the thread emoji)

Current status: eating yogurt that my son brought back from school. According to my wife, yogurt kept in a warm backpack all day can hurt his stomach, and I work from home anyway.

Thanks for everything, Heroku. Removed my last app from the platform.

Finished "Come and see," a 1985 anti-war film on the Nazi occupation of Belarus. Frightening and realistic. No guts to watch it again. youtube.com/watch?v=zjIiAp…

Just wrote a new blog post about my challenges of staying awake and sociable late at night. I wonder if it's just me, or you can relate. roman.pt/posts/survivin…

I wrote about my most popular posts of 2022. As I expected, "Don't Let Dicts Spoil Your Code," featured on Hacker News, was the top post. Surprisingly, my random notes on SQLAlchemy and Alembic came in second place. Check it out: roman.pt/posts/most-pop…

Following the most exciting opportunity works well if you are an expert in a regular environment. Otherwise, you enthusiastically follow a random choice. Thinking aloud why HELL YEAH strategy may not be the best move and what to do about it. roman.pt/posts/say-mayb…

That fear of a connection timeout on the last step of a purchase while the browser is still loading the page.

If it hurts, do it more often. How we introduced feature flags at Building Radar and what have we learned so far. Special thanks to DevCycle, the feature management provider of our choice. roman.pt/posts/feature-…

Monday procrastination trick — when creating Notion page, spend more time choosing emoji than writing content

My customers asked for a faster horse. Instead, I created them a GPT interface app.

Promised a quick and dirty solution. Delivered on dirty. Failed on quick.