On MonoRepo vs. MultiRepo
This conversation topic never converges. Like Willie said earlier, “It’s largely a matter of taste.”
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2024
JUnit5 Assertions
Developing using an LSP is one of the greatest achievements in developer experience of our time. Now, you can learn the language as you go with “help” coming...
2023
Trying out MRSK
MRSK is this new deployment tool planned to be baked into Rails. The goal is to allow app developers select the best cloud provider that fits their use case,...
Vimscript #12in23
Vimscript has been an old time favourite; seeing that I am composing this blog post in Vim. My decision to use Vimscript here was to use vim9script in solvin...
#12in23
A decade ago, in the year of our Lord 2013 — time flies! — I took on a challenge to learn seven languages in seven weeks. It was an interesting time because ...
2022
The Human Centrifuge
On Being episodes
The #DailyCreativeDisciple challenge
Well first geeky thing I learned from this is that to put the # symbol in the metadata part of the markdown file, you have to escape it with the & esc...
Stubbing $app/stores in Svelte Kit
What is Svelte Kit?
2021
I left Instagram. Here’s why.
I left cos Instagram turned on my camera multiple times while I was scrolling through the timeline. This happened during the morning of October 30. The only ...
What distinguishes Software Engineers
In conversation with one of my accountant friends who works in insurance, he made me realize “There is no standard for software engineering.” In accounting, ...
A Journey into CLI Mail Clients
I enjoy GMail shortcuts. I don’t use up to 10% of the available shortcuts, but the ability to navigate with the keyboard has always been fascinating. While p...
2020
On the Quest of Origins
This is an amazing read, and an even more pertinent concern. This problem has been prevalent for millennia; and from the comments to the LinkedIn post, the p...
2019
Presentation Skills
Through our careers as software engineers, our experience would grow as we practice our craft. There’s a saying that one does not really know a topic well en...
Know Your Operations
I recently saw a new detail of a new release into Ruby 2.7 where the array class would have methods like intersection, union, and difference.
C.I. with Github Actions
Continuous Integration is key in the delivery of any software. Now, “continuous integration” has had many definitions over the years. Some say it has to do w...
Rails Boundaries from Nested Resources
With the growth of microservices, and the scaling of many start-ups into medium-sized businesses, apps need to scale in their architecture. A popular way thi...
Deploying Rails to AWS
TL;DR If Rails can be deployed on a VPS, can it be deployed on a shared server?