, I'm Alison Monteiro!

I'm a Software Engineer who likes creating things for the web. I'm also into coffee, leadership, cloud computing, travel, and gastronomy.

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I forget things quickly

I constantly find myself perplexed, discussing with colleagues how quickly I forget things. It seems my mind randomly selects certain information to retain for a decade, while it throws other details away.

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Not everything needs refactoring

As the code becomes legacy and your production environment starts to experince more incidents due to your code's lack of quality, there are a few steps I like to reproduce in order to revamp the project and establish a good environment for engineers and the end user.

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Grid columns animation using CSS

CSS grids are perfect to strcuture complex layouts, but we can also leverage its capabilities do deliver nice animations on the front-end.

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Simple notes app using NextJS, Supabase, and Shadcn/UI

This is a simple experiment made to explore the usage of Supabase and Shadcn/UI on a NextJS application using the pages router.

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Converting PDF to HTML from the command line

This week I was working on a personal project and at some point I wanted to covert a PDF file to HTML. After doing some research, I found Apache Tika, a toolkit that can detect and extract text and metadata from different file types, such as PDF, PPT, XLS.

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