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I was an Engineering Manager at Evernote.

I started this blog in 2013.

I spent half a day cleaning up my Claude Code setup: 24 skills became 9 (removed duplicates and unused) and went from 246 lines to 123.

Like many others, Anthropic won me slowly, over time.

This blog post is a collections of programming books that comes up most often in various discussion on this subject.

In your command line run Modify and run the following Python script In 2018 I wrote a blog post titled Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and Google Cloud Speech API.

I wrote the following tool to do load test on Google Cloud PubSub.

Localize.js is a great service.

Golang does not have built it sets.

I recently watched the following speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger: It had a lot of good points, but one quote by Ted Turner really stood out for me: Mr.

Here are the steps that I too to merge multiple GitHub repos into one, while preserving all commit history.

One year ago I decided to stop self-promoting this blog.

I often find myself with logs in the following format, exported in CSV.

I was investigating a bug that would only happen in production and wanted to attach a debugger to a particular workflow.

Update: 2021 I am now happily using new editor I usually update my WordPress as soon as I can for security reasons.

Ammonite is an interactive REPL for Scala, kind of like ipython is for Python.

My wife and I were watching Jack Ryan, where John Krasinski is playing an FBI analyst.

In this episode of tech companies behaving badly, I would like to call out Yelp for forcing users to download their mobile app.

My work used to be three miles away from my house, which was a huge blessing and my commute was guaranteed to be under 15 minutes.

I should be able to lock my phone while using YouTube and still hear the sound in the background.

There are two philosophies when it comes to package installation, global first and local first.

A bit over a year ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project on this site.

As smartphones have become part and parcel of our lives to the extent that they almost have engaged us, it should be made sure that we effectively navigate the perilous minefield known as life.

My company hired a new VP of Engineering.

TLDR; Use blue page icon in the title bar (see image bellow) or in front of your URL to switch to reading mode in Firefox.

I am taking a cyber security class.

Here is a simple trick that I used to restart my python script after unhandled exception.

I am attending a Cyber Security course provided by CodePath and sponsored by Facebook (thank you).

Update 02/18/2018: – Expected search result is back on Google.

Few weeks ago I decided to take it easy on my Social Media use.

I wrote a post 8 months ago titled It’s OK to Still Use Angular 1 in 2017.

This tutorial will walk through using Google Cloud Speech API to transcribe a large audio file.

All shared Google Photos are open to the public, even if they were only shared with specific people.

Using () Using native Let’s say we have the following CSV file, named .

There are many use cases for converting JSON to a dot notation.

Recently I was working on a fun idea, that was going to take me longer than one week to complete.

Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index is an attempt to estimates total energy cost of mining Bitcoin.

Have you heard of Hacker News?

Bellow is a list of tools that I find helpful as a web developer.

What does 1 + 2 + 3 equal to?

Few years ago I found myself in a bad situation.

Two weeks ago Microsoft released a new version of Visual Studio Code (VSCode) which updated their default icon from a blue infinity sign, to something that looks a little strange and very orange.

A lot of people don’t like the New Visual Studio Code (aka VS Code or just Code) icon and they prefer the old icon better.

Chrome Developer Tools have a very useful option that allows to copy any API request as a CURL command.

Two recent post of mine were ridiculed on r/programmingcirclejerk: I submitted my own post, because I enjoyed the humor in those threads.

I’ve recently ran into issue where our projects were expecting to run with SBT version , but the only version that was installing with home-brew via was .

I created a light weight RSS reader for people on poor internet connection to get latest headlines: https://alexkras.com/textnews/ I am kind of away form keyboard, but saw that Tweet from @samccone pointing out that http://lite.cnn.com/ was making users d…

I’d like to open with the following comment on one of my anti-AMP shares, that I received today.

Two month ago I wrote at length how Twitter was redirecting links on mobile devices to AMP versions of the content.

Yesterday, I read an interesting article titled The Why and How of Google AMP at Condé Nast.