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A while back I started sharing my working notes on my blog.

The last thing I worked on in Ty was adding Pytest support.

I’m feeling it right now.

I planted my first plant in this apartment nearly three years ago.

It’s been a while since I wrote a dev log.

When I started programming professionally, I got recommended some programming books that teach you how to write good code and use well known patterns.

Last month I created a new project.

I was looking for a way to control my Philips Hue light strip without their terrible app1.

During last year I contributed to it and I learned a lot.

Disclaimer: This is an imaginary conversation happening in a world where AI is not as capable as good programmer.

I can finally start making a CPU using my logic gate simulator.

Ty tests use markdown.

If you think about how we judge skills you’d see we do it by questioning the advanced stuff.

Chat with New People # Met Amir.

I am reading No Ordinary Genius and the book is saying how nice it is when some technical writing includes everything you need to understand a subject.

I went to Italy in March with my friends from first grade.

I created a site to share your favorite RSS Feeds in a page.

I’m not sure if some time comes that I finally can say I know vim.

My blog is a bunch of files that are given to a program that converts them to HTML and CSS files, which is what you see here.

Biggest companies put candidates through lengthy interview process, yet still fire a lot of bad hires.

About two months ago I started the build your own Redis challenge from https://codecrafters.io.

Recently, A personal experience showed me how something widely accepted might be wrong.

One week I suddenly realized I did so much during the week but there’s nothing to show for it.

I was reading this old post from Brad Fitzpatrick, talking about why he thought open source contributors suddenly disappear after joining Google: They’re busy.

Random notes from past month.

I decided to build another system from scratch just to explore a new topic and learn things.

I was talking with my girlfriend recently about how to find something you are passionate about.

My job now involves doing some Golang work and this post is about how go test command can be improved.

It was about 3 Months ago that a interesting message showed upon my GitHub feed.

I had some time in between switching jobs and decided to go for a camping trip.

When I first read good and bad procrastination by Paul Graham, I was amazed how much my perspective changed about working.

I was walking in Rome a few weeks ago.

Despite the title this isn’t meant to name a specific company.

I implemented Generic classes and functions this week in Enderpy.

I recently started to notice this pattern that some teams create products and move on.

Last week I wanted to start contributing to rust.

This post is about my impression of Kotlin as a language after, well you guessed it, writing about five thousand lines of it.

Imagine you want to make a better keyboard.

I think I learned something about contributing to open source that, if I knew a couple of years back, I could have done much more open source contributions.

This post is a compilation of great resources I found while building a type checker for Python.

A while back I read about learning in public from swyx: At some point people will start asking you for help because of all the stuff you put out. 80% of developers are “dark”, they dont write or speak or participate in public tech discourse.

Introduction But Why Building Another Crawler?

Introduction New Rate Limiting Algorithms Fixed Window Test Sliding Window Log Testing Sliding Window Count Tests Conclusion Introduction # In the last post I started writing a rate limiter.

MacOS is already a polished environment and unlike some other OSes it works out of the box.

Introduction # After reading ByteByteGo course motivated me to write a rate limiter.

AWS CDK is a tool that lets you define your cloud resources in a languages such as python.

A while back I started planning my day before starting my day.

A pattern that I have recently seen in a project is data replication through real-time stream processing.

I use 2 factor authentication with almost all of my accounts, the only downside of this is that when I need to access something frequently or automate some task I have to manually enter this code from my phone.

One thing that frequently frustrates me when I’m working is sloppy work.