About the name

The name of this blog comes from the excellent paper ‘No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering’ by Fred Brooks that defines the principle of many concepts that I value, especially that if we want better software we need better developers and people, no tool will do magic.

“Hence, although I strongly support the technology-transfer and curriculumdevelopment efforts now under way, I think the most important single effort we can mount is to develop ways to grow great designers.” - Fred Brooks

About me

My name is Diego Reis, I’m a Computer Science student at Itajubá Federal University and I currently work as a Junior back-end developer at a consulting firm. I’m very interested in almost any topic involving computing, I love helping other people, running in the late afternoon and trying new things. Currently my main interests are:

• Bitcoin
• Distributed Systems
• Databases
• Functional Programming Languages

Fun Facts

1. I already worked as a waiter in bars, restaurants, clubs and in my university’s cafeteria.

2. I was theme of a famous brazilian news. Basically I make a raffle of my grandfather’s books to make some money to go to a book event called bienal. Here is the article

3. I’m a BIG paçoca enjoyer.

You can reach me on:

• X (twitter)
• Github
• Linkedin

Since I’m very early in my career, more technical posts may be incomplete and/or contain small errors, so don’t hesitate to suggest corrections and improvements.