joaoqalves

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• Software in a Post-Abundance World

  by joaoqalves on 1/28/2026, 5:16 PM with 0 comments

• Tech Lead Antipatterns

  by joaoqalves on 1/20/2026, 1:01 PM with 0 comments

• Operational Excellence, the Tech Lead Lever

  by joaoqalves on 1/13/2026, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• AI won't break your company, but pretending nothing changed will

  by joaoqalves on 1/9/2026, 9:34 AM with 0 comments

• Supercharge your development workflow with Claude Code action

  by joaoqalves on 1/4/2026, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?

  by joaoqalves on 12/16/2025, 9:38 AM with 128 comments

• Traits of a Good Tech Lead

  by joaoqalves on 12/9/2025, 3:19 PM with 0 comments

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

  by joaoqalves on 12/4/2025, 12:01 PM with 0 comments

• When software becomes fast food

  by joaoqalves on 12/2/2025, 1:32 PM with 1 comments

• Lessons from two failed promotions and what changed after ZIRP

  by joaoqalves on 11/25/2025, 2:22 PM with 0 comments

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

  by joaoqalves on 10/22/2025, 10:22 AM with 0 comments

• Building on vibes: Lessons from three years with LLMs

  by joaoqalves on 10/9/2025, 9:38 AM with 4 comments

• You can just open-source things

  by joaoqalves on 8/26/2025, 8:24 AM with 2 comments

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

  by joaoqalves on 5/30/2025, 7:30 PM with 1 comments

• Private Equity 101 for the tech industry

  by joaoqalves on 5/16/2025, 4:03 PM with 2 comments

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

  by joaoqalves on 4/24/2025, 7:13 AM with 0 comments

• In Praise of Pull Requests

  by joaoqalves on 10/1/2023, 9:15 AM with 0 comments

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

  by joaoqalves on 9/28/2023, 8:26 AM with 1 comments

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

  by joaoqalves on 8/12/2023, 5:20 AM with 2 comments

• It’s not always DNS – unless it is

  by joaoqalves on 6/13/2023, 11:05 AM with 0 comments

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

  by joaoqalves on 6/6/2023, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• Opinionated Tools Are Better

  by joaoqalves on 1/30/2023, 8:24 PM with 0 comments

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

  by joaoqalves on 1/19/2023, 4:58 PM with 1 comments

• Show HN: Maiao, Stacked Diffs for GitHub

  by joaoqalves on 10/8/2022, 12:25 PM with 23 comments

• Smaller blast radius with Highly Available Kubernetes clusters

  by joaoqalves on 7/7/2022, 1:41 PM with 0 comments

• Hiring, Interviews and Corporatism in Tech

  by joaoqalves on 5/23/2021, 9:15 AM with 0 comments

• Data-driven, optimization and local maxima

  by joaoqalves on 5/9/2021, 8:45 AM with 0 comments

• Why does Uber need 100s of mobile devs?

  by joaoqalves on 5/2/2021, 8:53 AM with 0 comments

• The Next Ten Years

  by joaoqalves on 4/25/2021, 1:53 PM with 1 comments

• Internal Platforms. Isn't Kubernetes Enough?

  by joaoqalves on 4/19/2021, 1:32 PM with 0 comments

• On Hiring QA Engineers

  by joaoqalves on 4/11/2021, 10:28 AM with 0 comments

• by joaoqalves on 4/11/2021, 10:28 AM with comments

• Disasters I've seen in a microservices world

  by joaoqalves on 4/2/2021, 3:36 PM with 0 comments

• by joaoqalves on 4/2/2021, 3:35 PM with comments

• Dear CTO, remote will change your company forever

  by joaoqalves on 3/19/2021, 2:25 PM with 0 comments

• No one will negotiate for you

  by joaoqalves on 3/10/2021, 7:00 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Blueliv's cyber-threat map (and Free API)

  by joaoqalves on 4/27/2015, 7:52 PM with 0 comments