A Photo Recap of the Past Week
Wow, it has been quite a week! It is time for a quick photo recap.
Recent posts
Software Disenchantment: A Slightly Philosophical Look
As a software developer who roams around the social media circles, you might have already stumbled upon Nikita Tonsky’s post. I have been tinkering with programming every since I can remember. I have been writing code professionally for close to a decade now. Therefore, I couldn’t just leave Nikita’s words pass by me, and not leave a remark. Here’s a quote from Nikita’s post that sets the overall tone:
Python: Automatic Argument Unpacking from a Dictionary
Programming often involves creating configuration objects/dicts and passing them around to functions. Let’s say we want to pass the following configuration dict to a function:
Revisiting IntStreams in Java8+
This post is mainly a reiteration of an article, I found online. As of Java 8, we have had the ability to replace looping operations on collections with streams and functional operations. This applies to situations where we don’t have an up-front collection to iterate upon.
Medium Is Turning into the Walled Garden It Did Not Want to Be
A few days ago, I got a question from an online friend of mine, whether to self-host his new blog, or start directly on Medium. I advised him to self-host and use Medium only for content distribution. I have always been pro writer independence, and though I have tried quite a few platforms over the years, none has really withstood the test of time. Medium makes no exception.