Writings

I wanted to leave GitHub when Microsoft bought it in 2018.

Last month, I added a new section to my website: Picks.

A few days ago I ran the PageSpeed Insights tool on my Blog and got a lower score than I expected.

About a year ago, I rebuild my home server.

Like most aspiring software engineers, I wanted to program games.

Eventually, you’ll connect to the production instance of your relational database.

When I set up this version of the website I opted for a ready to use theme instead of making my own.

Chapter 2.7 of the Git Book is called “Git Aliases”.

I like Low Tech Magazine.

Last year, the company I work for was looking to hire a Backend Engineer.

Some years ago I worked in a team of software developers which I still consider the most productive team I have ever been a part of.

When I joined 7Mind a year ago, I was hired partially to help migrate the existing system away from micro-services towards a new monolithic Elixir application.

At work, I’m currently building a new Node.js Application.

There are limited yet very legit use-cases for Text to Speech engines in your application.

When it comes to reading QR-codes, most Android applications use the ZXing library.

Getting into GNOME Shell extension development is hard and involves a lot of source-code reading.

I’m a highly audio-visual human being.

When working with I/O in Java, you can normally choose from a variety of Stream and Reader or Writer classes to handle all the “dirty” work for you.

I started working on a small inventory system, that keeps track of all the things I buy.

I recently started supporting API Level 9 in my current project, which brought a problem with the ActionBar along.

As I was reading around on StackOverflow, digging through other peoples source code, I spotted multiple methods returning null in a variety of circumstances.

In a perfect world, every value container (an object that only holds multiple fields of data and defines methods for access) is immutable.

I recently answered a question on StackOverflow, asking if catching an Error would be reasonable in a particular case.