Collecting passport stamps, trail blisters, and infinite loops.

I’m Mateus, a software Engineer based in Brazil. Currently I work at Tighten, and here I share some of my thoughts and experiences.

Today I Learned: CSS Layers

As someone who's more proeficient on the backend side of things, CSS has always scared me. Today, after spending some time trying to override the styles of a component from an external library, I learned about a CSS feature that can be very helpful: the @layer rule!

Why are landing pages so hard?

Maybe it's just me, but I think landing pages are so much harder than actual coding. I could write logic for days, but I can't write a catchy headline. Why is that?

My take on conventional commits

They create the illusion of organization while holding you to a verbose structure that ultimately constrains the natural flow, with no other upsides beyond making release notes slightly prettier.

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