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Hi All! 🤗 And then, one cold evening in December, my car broke down. In the middle of the intersection, right when the traffic lights turned green and I was about to leave. The engine, which had been turned off ...
A brief review of 2024 and what I'm looking forward to in 2025.
Introduction It is the end of the year, and I write this yearly as I have been writing it since . I get a lot of insights on the things after writing them. Letďż˝
The workflow of recursively searching for things or dealing with a list of issues to fix without getting lost.
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in December 2024.
i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
Sometimes, our bodies speak louder than our minds.
This is a follow-up to Let's build a CDN - Part 1A new friend joins us. We talk about the high-level, including why Varnish and why we are doing this in the first place. We go through the plan for ...
There is a lot of debate in the software community around whether LLMs can replace developers. Part of the reason is the way we formulate the problem of what it means to write software. In industry, we still give outsize ...
From imposter syndrome to shipping features used by millions, here's what I learned during my year as a remote engineer at Meta.
Less is more.
Discover how to classify DevRel content to understand what works for your team. Learn about 4 content types, their goals, and leading themes.
Introduction It is day 5 of the advent of code, and today we have an interesting problem of ordering pages. Let’s dive into the problem and how I approached i
Fork Around and Find Out is your downtime from uptime. Your break from the pager, and a chance to learn from expert’s successes and failures. We cover state-of-the-art, legacy practices for building, running, and maintaining software and systems. Be sure ...
Introduction Moving on to day 4, we have a grid problem in front of us, we are given some numbers in the form of a grid, i.e. some rows and columns with some up
A coat cannot make you truly happy.
Introduction Well, it is day 3 of the advent of code 2024, and I have been doing it on live streams. I am behind two days but working through them one by one. S
A personal reflection on seven years of JS Party as the show transitions into its next chapter with dysfunctional.fm.
I wrote more terrible code. Here's how I fixed it.
I’ve recently decided to apply the permissive MIT License to all content on CSS Wizardry by default. How does this affect you?
Python has two modes of dealing with dates and times: Timezone-naive and timezone-aware. The former is simpler, the latter is more powerful but has some pitfalls in store. This article summarizes a few edge cases involving daylight saving shifts where ...
The new Speculation Rules API is incredibly powerful, but we can do so much more! By taking a layered approach, we can add more progressive functionality.
Take ownership—and responsibility—of your social data
Introduction So, this is day 2 of the Advent of Code 2024 in Golang, and we will be exploring my approach and solution for the same. The problem was not as easy
Introduction Hello everyone, it’s that time of the year, Advent of Code, I will be solving this year as well with Golang. In previous years I have been doing
Not because it's cool (it is), but because it's what your company actually needs right now."Business in the front, party in the back" isn't just some throwback style. It's the whole point.In our corporate, don't-let-HR-see-this reality,
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in November 2024.
“Frameworkism preaches that the way to improve user experiences is to adopt more (or different) tooling from the framework's ecosystem. This provides adherents with something to do that looks plausibly like engineering, except it isn't. It can even become a ...
In the past week I had two people separately tell me what they thought the Python Software Foundation Conduct WG did and both were wrong (and incidentally in the same way). As such, I wanted to clarify what exactly the ...
Why design another new performance score?! Good question…
