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There are several advantages into using prepared statements and transactions in SQL, in my case mostly with MariaDB.

In this document we will explain how to migrate to a newer FreeBSD version both on hosts and on jails.

FreeBSD uses the init system, and system services must be made as rc.d scripts.

Javascript has a stranglehold on all Front End Development.

Haskell is the first programming language we reach for when we build production software systems.

There are some anti-patterns one should avoid when writing SQL queries.

In this day and age, server side rendering proves it is stable and more effective than the JavaScript bloat we are growing used to.

This serves as a supplement to Effective Go, based on years of experience and inspiration/ideas from conference talks.

Writing a Jenkins Shared Library pipeline # A good read to get started understanding about why and how we are doing this, is the Jenkins official documentation, which gives a good explanation about this, but quite incomplete when it comes an actual example

It is important to have a clean separation of concerns, both in your code, as in your machine’s setup.

In order to keep all of the jails behind a single public IP address, you’ll need to set up a loopback interface and direct the incoming and outgoing traffic of your Jails with a proper firewall like pf.

Ever heard of dangling pointers?

Something that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently, when reflecting on the body of my own work, is a common subtitle, how should I write good code?

Why Write Clean Code?

PostgreSQL or Postgres is a powerful object-relational high-performance database management system (ORDBMS) published under a flexible BSD-style license.

This is a post about Go’s built in make and new functions.

If writing code were a science, all developers would pretty much be the same.

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