Don't Build Your Products Around Technologies. Build Technologies Around Your Products
A great technology is one that helps you solve a particular problem without becoming the centerpiece of your product.…
My Running Achievements of 2018
I am a big fan of Strava and use it not only to keep a record of my running activities, but also, to get a glimpse of what I have achieved at the end of each year. The following video was made by the folks from Strava, and is a…
Comments on the Blog Are Now Powered by GitHub
I have wanted to move away from using Disqus for quite some time. Nothing personal against its service. Disqus is very popular among bloggers and works well, but it also adds a bunch of tracking scrips to every page it gets installed on. This seems too much to my taste,…
Use Dotenv Files When Developing Your Python Apps
Hard-coding configuration is bad. This is one of the things that newbie programmers learn quickly after they realize that have committed sensitive information to a public GitHub repository. And it happens so easily. Often, you are in the spur of the moment, wanting to test something locally, when you figure…
A New Year, a New Idea: The F-Word Detector
Remember Not Hotdog from HBOs Silicon Valley? I want to build a speech detector which distinguishes between normal speech, and one containing F-words. An F-word detector of sorts.…
Dark Mode for the Web Using Dark Reader
Switch to using a dark UI everywhere, even when browsing your favorite Web pages.…
What I learned in 2018
It's that time of the year again. The time when you make yourself a cup of coffee, and go through the events of the past years, searching for a sign that it has been worth it.…
Connecting to a MongoDB Instance Using KMongo
Often, the seemingly simple things can make you spend hours chasing around tail. Like trying to connect to a MongoDB instance using KMongo.Basically, if you have checked out the KMongo quick start, setting up a client and fetching some data should be extremely easy:val client = KMongo.createClient() //get…
How Much of "The Kotlin Way" Is the Right Way?
Is Kotlin chasing the footsteps of Scala? Does being Kotlin-first mean abandoning the foundations laid out by Java, and how much "idiomatic Kotlin" is too much? You decide.…
Deutschland 83 / Able Archer 83'
And the closest nuclear war encounter, few people really know about.…