Fran Armijo Farmijo | Random thoughts blog

Culture

The Junior Dev Market Is Dead. Let's see if comes back.

AI killed it. And it’s not done yet.

8/9/2025

Encourage the use of AI tools on live coding interviews

If ChatGPT can ace your interview question, maybe you're interviewing the wrong way.

5/14/2025

About the past, present and future of QA positions

Few thoughts about the current status of QA role

9/10/2021
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Meta

Picasso was to painting what David Lynch was to cinema

The parallelism is so obvious that I’m surprised that is not over explained at this point.

7/20/2025

Just discovered Zettelkasten

Seems that the originary idea of this blog (retain thoughts and lessons) is implemented on its own framework with rules

7/3/2025

Prioritizations

1 simple rule

6/5/2025
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Music

(Guitar musical tips2/n) If your root is on the 5th string, the same fret on the 6th string is the V grade of the chord

A simple, stupid rule that allows to add extension to your chords and enter into the harmonic substitution world.

6/23/2025
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Programming

Custom transports on NestJS (and how to avoid KafkaJS)

At some point, NestJS should drop the unmaintained KafkaJS and decide which native approach substitute. In the meantime, consider this.

6/5/2025

Typescript types and when not to trust them (2 of n)

Typescript disappears at runtime. Hence, types disappear at runtime too. Do not fully trust the types. Example here: Controllers.

8/31/2023

Typescript types and when not to trust them (1 of n)

Typescript disappears at runtime. Hence, types disappear at runtime too. Do not fully trust the types. Example here: Middlewares.

8/6/2023
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