We often hear this rather denigrating remark “jack of all trades, master of none.” Said like that, it sounds offensive and implies that being a specialist in one thing and one thing alone is a good thing.
Category: Coding & Tech
Software development quirks and technologies that interest me.
Settled on Fedora
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A few weeks ago, I woke up to a terrible feeling. An emptiness, caused by the overuse of macOS at work and Ubuntu at home. I craved something different, something other than routine. So I once again donned my “distro hopper” hat in the pursuit of an ideal second operating system.
Head First Design Patterns — Book Review
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After banging my head multiple times in attempts to learn design patterns from various online resources I finally found one that taught me well.
Merge commit vs. squash commit in git
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It’s an endless debate. Like spaces vs. tabs. emacs vs. vim. Windows vs. Mac. Before joining Automattic, creating a merge commit was the only way I would close PRs.
Agile is an adjective, not a textbook
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Teams often tend to follow some off-the-shelf agile model as a written-in-stone guidebook… move away from the very essence of agile
Don’t dread the Thread, it’s just Java async code
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It’s useful to think of threads simply in terms of tools that provide the ability to execute pieces of code asynchronously. Before async-await and Future…
Clean Code
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There’s a bunch of technical books sitting in my Amazon wishlist for quite some time. Poor books! They could not end up in my shopping cart for a myriad of reasons, laziness to read being chief amongst them. The importance of reading technical books simply cannot be overstated. Or reading articles, for that matter. Reading […]
Fixing headphone jack in Ubuntu 20.04
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As weird and funny as it may sound, Ubuntu isn’t able to play sounds on my laptop‘s 3.5mm headphone jack. Yes, the gentle, innocuous, innocent headphone jack that we all love and use. And mine’s not even a super-fancy laptop with uncommon hardware. It’s a Dell Inspiron 7000 series laptop with an Intel chipset. How […]
How to deal with node_modules in a Dockerized Node application?
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There are tens of thousands of blogs, articles and forum threads out there on containerizing a Node.js application. We have everything from outright bad advices to informed and tested opinions. This short post is about a very specific aspect of Dockerinzing a Node app, something that is usually not addressed or given as an after-thought […]
Future of Tech for Good (conversations that matter)
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My interview with socialpreneur and educator Saurabh Nanda. Full story