Stories by joaoqalves

Traits of a Good Tech Lead

Claude Templates: scripts for better Claude Code experience in YOLO mode

When software becomes fast food

Lessons from two failed promotions and what changed after ZIRP

Karpathy is wrong. Write that post, build that slide deck

Building on vibes: Lessons from three years with LLMs

You can just open-source things

Five opinions I've kept, let go, and picked up as a software builder and leader

Private Equity 101 for the tech industry

Show HN: RotaHog rotas for teams. No more spreadsheet hell

In Praise of Pull Requests

Unpacking the Complexities of Kubernetes Upgrades: Beyond the One-Click Update

Generating 90M USD in revenue for Soho House through a fake Hinge profile

It’s not always DNS – unless it is

Show HN: Noe, a mutating webhook to make multi-arch simpler in Kubernetes

Opinionated Tools Are Better

Is this Hacker News material? How to write and distribute great content

Show HN: Maiao, Stacked Diffs for GitHub

Smaller blast radius with Highly Available Kubernetes clusters

Hiring, Interviews and Corporatism in Tech