Cesar Aguirre

Software engineer, lifelong learner, language enthusiast & avid reader — Get my free 7-day email course to refactor your coding career: bit.ly/csarag-lessons

Colombia 🇨🇴 (not Columbia) Joined on Jul 23, 2019 https://bit.ly/imcsarag

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Content, Courses & Training for .NET teams — Helping teams to write maintainable & performant code

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Cesar Aguirre

Feb 3

This Is Why We Don't Test Private Methods

#testing #beginners #csharp #programming

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Oct 14 '24

Four Lessons My First Job as a Software Engineer Taught Me About Coding and Life

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners #softwareengineering

4 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Sep 9 '24

It Seems the C# Team Is Finally Considering Supporting Discriminated Unions

#csharp #dotnet #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Aug 19 '24

I Applied at a FAANG and Failed — Three Interviewing Lessons

#career #interview #careerdevelopment #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Aug 5 '24

I Don’t Use "Pushy" Questions in Code Reviews Anymore. This Is What I Do Instead

#codereview #career #beginners

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

May 19

How to Land a Coding Job in Post-Pandemic Times—The Untraditional Way

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners #jobhunting

2 min read

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Cesar Aguirre

May 14

The Easiest Way to Be Ignored When Communicating at Work

#career #careerdevelopment #workplace #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

May 12

The Career Lesson the Most Expensive Hamburgers I've Eaten Taught Me

#career #careerdevelopment #workplace #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

May 7

You Don't Need Markdown to Blog—But It Makes It Easier

#discuss #writing #blogging #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

May 5

There's Nothing Wrong With Coding Just to Pay the Bills

#career #beginners #programming #coding

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Apr 30

Re: Will AI Take My Job? A Coder's Reality Check

#softwaredevelopment #coding #ai #programming

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Apr 28

What Frustrates Me the Most as a C#/.NET Developer

#discuss #csharp #dotnet #beginners

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Apr 21

The Day I Realized I Needed to Raise My Rates as a Coder

#career #freelance #careerdevelopment #beginners

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Apr 14

How to Better Organize Your Program.cs File in ASP.NET Core Apps

#csharp #aspnet #dotnet #beginners

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Apr 7

Five Eye-Opening Lessons I Learned from Being Fired from My First Coding Job

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners #workplace

4 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Apr 2

An Easy Mnemonic to Format Dates As Strings in C#

#csharp #beginners #dotnet #webdev

1 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Mar 31

Missed the Last 10 Years of C#? Read This Quick Catch-up Guide

#csharp #dotnet #dotnetcore #dotnetframework

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Mar 24

You're Not a Programmer Until...

#watercooler #discuss #programming #jokes

131

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Cesar Aguirre

Mar 17

TIL: AutoMapper Only Considers Simple Mappings When Validating Configurations

#todayilearned #csharp #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Mar 10

If You Enjoy Coding, Think Twice About Joining the Management Track

#career #careerdevelopment #workplace #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Mar 3

I Hope You Don't Have To Write a CV. But if You Do, Follow These Tips

#career #interview #resume #beginners

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Feb 24

Essential First Steps for Unit Testing in C#

#csharp #dotnet #beginners #testing

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Feb 17

New Writers and Bloggers: Here Are 5 Lessons from a Viral Post

#watercooler #beginners #writing #blogging

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Feb 10

TIL: Configure Default Values for Nullable Columns With Default Constraints in EntityFramework Core

#todayilearned #csharp #tutorial #dotnet

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Feb 5

If a Language Learning Forum Were Like a Coding Forum:

#watercooler #jokes

1 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jan 27

How a Layoff Feels—And How to Prepare for the Next One

#career #careerdevelopment #workplace #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jan 20

The Best Way to Get Better at Writing Code Isn't Just Writing More Code

#career #coding #beginners #programming

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jan 13

I'm Answering the Blog Questions Challenge — Dev.to Edition

#discuss #writing #watercooler #blogging

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jan 6

My 2024 in Review—And My Most Read Posts

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #career #yearinreview

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Dec 30 '24

If You're Looking for Red Flags Once You're in a Job, It's Too Late

#career #beginners #interview #careerdevelopment

1 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Dec 23 '24

When Is The Best Time To Look for a New Job?

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Dec 16 '24

Don't Ask Anyone To "Be Your Mentor"— Do This Instead

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners #mentorship

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Dec 9 '24

Two Alternatives to Assertion Messages — and Two Ideas if You Do Want To Keep Them

#csharp #dotnet #beginners #testing

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Dec 2 '24

Learn To Talk to Non-Tech People in Your Team

#career #careerdevelopment #softwareengineering #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Nov 25 '24

The Power of Function Composition — to Find If an Array Is Special

#dotnet #csharp #beginners

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Nov 18 '24

Using Lambda Expressions Doesn't Make Your C# Code Functional

#csharp #dotnet #beginners

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Nov 11 '24

14 Career Lessons After 10+ Years (and Lots of Trial and Error) as a Software Engineer — Rapid Fire Edition

#career #careerdevelopment #softwareengineering #beginners

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Nov 4 '24

Two New LINQ Methods in .NET 9: CountBy and Index

#csharp #beginners #tutorial #dotnet

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Oct 28 '24

TIL: How To Use the Specification Pattern in C# To Simplify Repositories

#todayilearned #csharp #aspnet #dotnet

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Oct 21 '24

Three Post-Mortem Lessons From a Failed Software Project

#career #coding #management #careerdevelopment

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Oct 7 '24

Want to Ace Your Next Take-Home Coding Exercises? Follow These 13 Short Tips

#interview #career #beginners #coding

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Sep 30 '24

How to Handle the Startup Class When Migrating ASP.NET Core Projects

#csharp #dotnet #beginners #aspnet

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Sep 23 '24

How to Promote Primitive Values To Value Objects

#csharp #beginners #tutorial #ddd

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Sep 16 '24

AI Won't Take Our Coding Jobs Yet. But in 2034, Coding by Itself Won't Be Enough

#career #programming #ai #coding

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Sep 2 '24

For Cleaner Domains, Move IO to the Edges of Your App

#csharp #dotnet #beginners #eventdriven

4 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Aug 26 '24

A Business Case Against Massive Unrequested Refactorings

#career #refactoring #management

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Aug 12 '24

5 Unit Testing Best Practices I Learned from This NDC Conference Talk

#chsarp #dotnet #beginners #testing

5 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jul 29 '24

My Least Favorite Part of C# Evolution: Inconsistency

#csharp #beginners #dotnet

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jul 22 '24

New Developers Looking for a Mentor: Here's a (Free) Mentorship Session in 8 Lessons

#career #careerdevelopment #mentorship #beginners

5 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jul 18 '24

Looking For Feedback on One of Your Posts? Leave a Comment!

#discuss #writing #watercooler #learning

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jul 15 '24

Once You Touch It, You Own It!

#career #softwareengineering #beginners #projectmanagement

1 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jul 8 '24

Testing DateTime.Now Revisited: Using .NET 8.0 TimeProvider

#csharp #dotnet #beginners #testing

4 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jul 1 '24

Four Lessons I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Software Engineer

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners #softwareengineering

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jun 24 '24

The Clean Coder, a Better Book Recommendation

#career #careerdevelopment #books #beginners

1 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jun 17 '24

Job Security is a Myth: Three Lessons on Layoffs

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jun 12 '24

TIL: How to declutter sites with uBlock Origin filters

#todayilearned #productivity #showdev #design

2 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jun 10 '24

Don’t Be a Hero. It's a Trap

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners

1 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jun 3 '24

Why Do Some Software Projects Fail?

#career #careerdevelopment #beginners

1 min read

Cesar Aguirre

May 13 '24

This is how I'd start an Ultralearning project to become a Software Engineer

#beginners #programming #tutorial #productivity

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Apr 16 '24

How to Test Logging with FakeLogger

#csharp #dotnet #beginners #testing

4 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Mar 18 '24

Let's refactor a test: PaymentProxy

#csharp #tutorial #dotnet #unittest

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Mar 11 '24

Let's refactor a test: AccountController

#csharp #tutorial #dotnet #unittest

4 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Aug 14 '23

NullReferenceException & LINQ XOrDefault methods

#beginners #tutorial #cshap #coding

4 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jul 19 '23

What NullReferenceException is and how to avoid it

#beginners #csharp #coding #tutorial

3 min read

Cesar Aguirre

Jun 5 '23

I'm banning Get, Set, and other method and class names

#csharp #beginners #cleancode #coding

4 min read