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TL;DR Minibri Score is a sports prediction game that is actually fun!

Over the past few years I read a lot of articles, blog posts, and a few books on stock market investing.

I am working on a side project similar to Leetcode/HackerRank (more on that in another article) where I have to execute some given JavaScript code against hundreds of inputs.

I am a huge fan of AWS Lambda and serverless in general.

The OTP team is respecting the old slogan: first make it work, then make it beautiful, and only if you need to, make it fast.

I have been doing a lot of web development over the past few years, both in my own time with my side projects but also at work.

Last week I wrote about note taking being my productivity tool, and then about the worklog being my most important daily document.

In a previous article where I wrote about my favourite productivity tool I briefly mentioned about my daily work log habbit.

I thought about writing this article many times over the years but I always thought it was not really something worthy of writing.

Overview If you follow me online you probably know that I like serverless platforms a lot.

Overview Over the past few years I played around with many languages, starting with C/C++ at college to Java and JavaScript professionally, and to many others during my own time out of interest like Go, Scala, Python, Elixir, Clojure, Racket, Ruby and mor…

Overview After almost 5 years at Amazon, I really think that the Amazon Leadership Principles are among the few things that are always going to be engraved in me.

Problem After using ReactJS for two years, along with all its ecosystem (Redux for state management, Redux-saga for managing side-effects, etc.)

Problem Many times I want to run multiple services on the same EC2 instance.

Problem I have some important private files that I want to store in Google Drive and on my USB flash drive, but I don’t want them to be in plain sight for anyone to see.

Problem Recently, I have updated the deployment scripts of my website and for some tasks I wanted to have certain environment variables available in my scripts.

I recently posted a detailed article on how to efficiently run Racket compiled native binaries on AWS Lambda, and the same process can be used for any compiled binary that runs on Amazon Linux (including binaries from languages like Go, Racket, OCaml, Rus…

Since I have been fiddling around with Windows Subsystem for Linux I realised how bad Command Prompt is compared to Terminator, my go-to terminal solution for Linux.

Problem While I was testing out the Windows Subsystem for Linux - WSL I setup all my favourite programming languages inside the Linux system instead of Windows.

Problem I recently started learning Racket and one of the first things I do with a new language is integrating it with AWS Lambda.

Problem Few months ago I started receiving the following warning from Github, Your GitHub academic discount coupon has expired, and if I wanted to continue working with my private repositories I would have to pay.

Problem While I was learning Elixir I wanted something to use the for-comprehension to solve a problem.

Problem As you know I build this website using my custom site generator builder so the whole website is being re-created every time I change something.

Every now and then we have to change phones and transfer contacts from one device to another.

In this small tutorial I provide a code snippet that allows you to update a record set in Route53 with the public IP of an EC2 instance programmatically.

A few months ago I attended a talk given by Monotype’s Steve Matteson who designed awesome fonts like Open Sans, Android’s Droid family and Microsoft’s Segoe family among others, and by Mark Boulton who is now Design Director at Monotype and founder of Ma…

This is going to probably be the shortest article I wrote, or will write!

A few months ago I started migrating all my projects and websites into AWS.

I decided to play around with Typescript instead of BabelJS, which I already tried in the past, for this weekend’s project.

I wanted to write this article for a while now but I waited until I actually passed the certification exam before I started giving tips to others :) This article is mostly a reference for myself, but it might also be helpful to anyone preparing for the AWS

Finally, I found some time to re-write my super-duper URL shortener yet once again :) As part of my preparation for the AWS Certifications I plan on taking, I wanted to make an architectural re-design of Spi.to completely cloud-based on AWS.

A few weeks ago a friend asked me for a way to import his Apple Notes into Google Keep.

A few months ago I started studying most of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and as I said in a previous post one of my goals for this year is to transition all my apps and microservices into AWS.

A common feature among most websites is a way to contact the owner for any comments or feedback (or complaints).

Time passes and goes at amazing speed.

I have been a user of Wordpress since 2006 in order to provide my own blog, latest version found at MasterGenius.NET.

If you have ever installed wordpress on your own server, at some time you faced permissions problems.

Many users are dual booting Windows and Ubuntu for numerous reasons today.

Since version 7 of Java Ubuntu no longer has in its packages the required files for the Oracle JDK 7 due to new license terms by Oracle.

Anyone that purchased a laptop with nVidia Optimus is facing problems with Linux support.

After researching for a few hours online to find a guide on how to control my Thinkpad’s fan speed I realized that the new models have some differences from previous models and the guides available are not complete if not wrong.

Your hostname or otherwise Computer Name is the name that your computer uses inside the network it is connected to in order to distinguish itself.