From Academia to Industry: A Letter to My 2021 Self
In 2021, I joined Zup Innovation and became a part-time professor. Before Zup, my last full-time industry experience was right before I started my PhD, when ...
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2026
2025
Got Another PhD
A few days ago, I tied a new belt around my waist — a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
10 Years in Academia: From Passion to Profession
February 24th marked the 10th anniversary of my PhD defense. YAY! 🥳
2023
From Research to Pull-Requests
In the past, I wrote a blog post summarizing the first year of my transition to the software development industry. This October marks my second year working ...
Studying: The Underrated Skill
After a bit more than one year working full time in the industry, I have come to realize the immense value of a particular skill that we, as academics, may u...
2022
Why is 42 the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?
During research studies, a vital part of the work is to think about the methodologies of the study. Although the method is perhaps an essential part of one r...
Rigor vs Value in Industrial Research
Today marks my first year working as a Researcher for Zup Innovation, a Brazilian tech company. When I joined Zup, I often told people that the last time I h...
2021
Extensão de deadlines é considerado prejudicial
This post was written in Portuguese because it was aimed to Brazilian scholars.
HOWTO: Academic collaboration
The proverb “If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together” is also true for academic settings. No matter how good work you could do a...
What does it mean a license be OSI-approved?
The Open Source Initiative (or OSI for short), is a global, non-profit institution that promotes the adoption and awareness of open source software.
Explaining the MIT license
The MIT license is one of the shortest open source license available out there. It has only 167 words, grouped into four paragraphs.
2020
How to find a good venue to submit your research paper
Some days ago I made an YouTube live about this topic (in PT-BR, sorry). This blog post is a text version of that video.
How to deal with rejections
Some days ago I made an YouTube live about how to deal with rejections (in PT-BR, sorry). This blog post is a text version of that video.
How to start doing research
I’m selling a book about good habits that young scholars could foster while finding their path in academia, for only $ 5.
How to write a short book in 20 hours
A short book
1+5 Good Habits for Young Scholars
Promoting a book
Why the MIT licensed is 18x more used then GPL-3?
I am writing a book to make open source licensing easier to understand! I want this!
What can go wrong when one misuses open source licenses?
I am writing a book to make open source licensing easier to understand! I want this!
New Book: Demystifying Open Source Licensing
I am writing a book to make open source licensing easier to understand!
Lack of focus in Academia
Too many things to do
Got tenure; What does it mean?
As of April the 4th, 2020, I am a tenured professor at UFPA, Brazil.
Rethinking academic priorities during a pandemic
How to cope with work during COVID-19
It’s OK to be unproductive during COVID-19 outbreak
Many other things matter
Initial thoughts on collaboration with the industry
How to start?
Third year of professoring
This is the third blog post of this topic. Go read the summary of the first year and the second year, if you didn’t yet.
2019
How it’s like to do research in Brazil?
How much does it cost to attend a conference?
On the registration costs of software engineering conferences
During this 2019 year I have been collecting the registration fee of academic software engineering conferences. I did not cover all software engineering conf...
Detecting and Reporting Object-Relational Mapping Problems
Developers often take advantage of Object-Relation Mapping (ORM) frameworks to provide a conceptual abstraction between objects in object-oriented languages ...
Resumo da disciplina de Tópicos Especiais em Software Livre
No primeiro semestre de 2019, em conjunto com Filipe Saraiva, ministramos a disciplina de Tópicos Especiais em Software Livre (TESL) para alunos da graduação...
Continuous Integration Theater
According to this post, “CI theatre describes the illusion of practising continuous integration (CI) while not really practising it.” Common failure modes in...
Tips on how to find a phd advisor
Look for active internet users
Thinking about teaching
Although I am a professor, teaching is not the part of my work that I love the most. I do like teaching, but I do not love teaching. And when I have a heavy ...
Why blogging in academia is important
Researchers are busy people. We always have many things to do, and we often delay in delivering our projects. How many times did you receive an email that st...
Changing roles in the academic system
I have been reflecting on the roles that I took in academia over these last 10+ years and I finally decided to write them down. I believe I have passed throu...
How to send a student to attend ICSE (with zero budget)
This year, an undergraduate student of mine first-authored a paper in the MSR challenge track on the presence of violations in JavaScript code snippets avail...
Characterizing the Roles of Contributors in Scientific OSS Projects
Recently some colleagues and I have been trying to understand the roles of contributors in open source scientific software projects. We studied 7 well-known ...
Parem com essa discussão sobre Qualis
This post was written in Portuguese because it was aimed to Brazilian scholars.
2018
Second year of professoring
Following my blog post about my first year of professoring, in this blog we update the status for the current year. Let me revisit this wonderful year.
How do Scientists Develop Software
This is a summary of the paper “How Do Scientists Develop Scientific Software? An External Replication”. As the name suggests, we conducted an external repli...
A call for good figures in research papers
Over the last few years, I became more and more into creating good figures to use in research papers. It probably started when I was reading a book about dat...
First year of professoring
While I’m starting my second year of Assistant professor, it is worth to look back and see how was my first year. It may help to improve my professoring skil...
2017
Training students with open-source software
Following my recent experience with POSSE workshop, I went back decided to put all of that in practice as soon as possible. My setting was an operating syste...
POSSE 2017 An experience report
POSSE (Professors’ Open Source Software Experience) is a workshop aimed at bringing world-wide professors to discuss how they can improve their CS courses in...
msr17 in 5 tweets
The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference is the real place to go, if you want to learn the new advances regarding msr techniques, datasets, and tool...
2016
Transferring Knowledge from Systematic Reviews to Practitioners
Researchers have few incentives to write to the general public. On the other hand, practitioners are not used to consume software engineering research. This ...
2014
Do developers care about software energy consumption?
Is energy consumption a real issue in the software development process? Do developer really care about that?
2013
Why do you keep doing surveys?
When I say survey, I mean online questionnaires.
Tips to attend OOPSLA with low budget
Are you a [under]grad student who is wondering how amazing it could be to attend a flagship conference such as OOPSLA? But, as a student, you might have a lo...
Pycon 2014 - Call for posters
PyCon is the premier Python Conference, and in 2014 it is being held for the first very time outside US - in the beautify Montéal/CA. It is not only a great ...
From where come the Brazilian open-source contributions?
Some days ago I was wondering why open-source communities are so cool! You can meet a lot of interesting people, who devote a lot time of their time-lifes ju...
Improving our line plots with R
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