A few months ago I was searching “Mario Bros NES online” at 2 AM. Pure nostalgia. As a kid I used to play that game at my grandparents’ house because they had nothing else installed on their PC. I ...

Hey! This one’s going to be a short one, but hopefully useful to some of you out there. It’s been a while since Heroku announced the end of free dynos and database plans, but it’s still one of the...

A few weeks ago, while packing for a move, I stumbled upon an old 4-bit CPU that a friend and I built during our first year of college. For our “Computer System Architecture” class, they didn’t giv...

Have you ever wondered how ActiveRecord, the ORM behind Ruby on Rails, functions? ORMs are crucial tools that simplify database interactions in web applications, yet many developers use them withou...

After completing the first version of a website for a friend, I dedicated some time to extract an API client I had developed for connecting with dlocalGo’s API. dlocalGo is a payment processor buil...

Hey there! My name is Matias Salles, I’m a Software Engineer based in Montevideo, Uruguay. I’m an open-source enthusiast and I love to build and learn new/cool stuff, I’m passionate about engineer...