basics

I have a confession to make: When I started Software Development, I almost suffered from anxiety each time that I read open the terminal and type in the following command… 🥲 Coming from a non-tech background, the terminal always seemed something to be used only in movies or by the most senior developers. But, as I shifted my focus from Android to Flutter, I decided to battle this ol’ fear of mine, and bit by bit I started to see the true power of the command line - by just chaining a couple of commands, I can quickly create a new Flutter project and open it in Visual Studio Code....

As developers, we pride ourselves in creating novel solutions to our problems, or by just simply reducing a few dozen lines of code into three or four. And although having clean code leads to a more readable code and, hopefully, a less buggy code, if we do it mindlessly and without planning, we are going to hit two common problems: We lose too much time trying to achieve simplicity, instead of focusing on delivering a product; When we do reach that “simplicity”, it is hard to read and understand, be it for other developers or our “future us”....