Author: Edvaldo Freitas
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The best developer productivity tools in 2025
Vamos ser honestos, our development environments are getting more complex every day. Microservices, monorepos, serverless functions, a dozen CI jobs… it is a lot to manage. The promise of a “flow state” can feel like a distant dream when you are stuck fighting config files or waiting on a slow PR review. This is where…
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Prompt Engineering Best Practices to Turn LLMs into Reliable Pair Programmer
Let’s be honest, coding with an LLM often feels like working with a junior developer, but with wild inconsistency. It can generate a great starter version of your code, and then immediately hallucinate a dependency that doesn’t even exist. We want a senior partner, but in reality it turns into a trial-and-error game. That gap…
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Coderabbit Alternatives for AI Code Review
Everyone has been there, stuck waiting for a critical PR review while the project manager keeps pushing you. If you’ve been using a tool like Coderabbit to ease that pain, you’re on the right track. But with the AI devtools landscape exploding, you might be wondering if there’s a better alternative to Coderabbit for your…
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How to reduce technical debt in every pull request
A technical debt does not appear out of nowhere after a bad sprint. It works more like a tax you pay on every future feature. And it almost always comes from the small decisions we make every day. A shortcut that seemed harmless, a bad variable name, a test that got pushed to later “just…
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What is PHP?
Let’s make one thing very clear: if you spend any time on the internet, you have already used a site running on PHP. You just did not know it. For a language that powers a massive slice of the modern web, from your favorite blog to huge e-commerce stores, PHP is surprisingly discreet and, let’s…
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What is Golang?
If you are in the development world, you have probably heard of Go. But after all, what is Golang? In simple terms, Go (or Golang, to make Google searches easier) was Google’s own answer to a question that came up internally around 2009: “What if we could create a programming language for today’s problems?” Think…
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What to Include in a Code Review Template
Code reviews can easily turn into a mess. In one PR you get a super detailed analysis full of notes. In the next one, a change of similar complexity goes through with almost no comments. This inconsistency is not just annoying; it directly affects codebase quality and team velocity. The good news is that there…
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What is Python?
So, you’re asking, what is phyton? Let’s cut through the noise. At its core, Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. But that’s the kind of definition that makes your eyes glaze over. Here’s a better way to think about it: Python is the language designed for humans first, and computers second. It prioritizes…
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Flutter Code Review: A Practical Guide
Let’s be honest, most code reviews feel like an obligation. At best, they are just a quick, low-effort approval. At worst, they are a discouraging deep dive into every variable name you picked. But a good Flutter code review is none of that. What to look for in a Flutter Code Review Architecture and State…