programming

Programming has changed a lot in the last couple of years. Jobs feel tighter, everything is moving fast, and now apparently even my grandma can ship a pretty complex iOS to-do app. Still, beyond all the panic this can trigger in “real” developers, these tools are also genuinely useful. They can help us build faster, explore ideas faster, and sometimes understand code faster too. And if you are anything like me, and spent a while resisting this whole wave because software felt like a craft, you might feel a bit behind....

During my university days, I avoided building CRUD apps, not because I couldn’t, but because they felt boring. To me, it was just a client (web or mobile) talking to a server that ran some SQL queries. I dodged them in every project I could. Fast forward a three years, after graduating and working at Oracle, I’ve realized that almost everything in software is just a fancy CRUD app. And you know what?...