This article is co-authored by yours truly and Haseeb Tariq, an outstanding engineer and dear colleague of trade. It has also been published on his blog, which you should also check out. Python being one of the most accessible programming languages — when it was taking off in around 2010, gave a lot of beginners a false sense of competence. Today vibe coding is doing the same, just at a whole new…
I’ve just been to Tallinn for a quick getaway between Christmas and New Year’s holidays. While the city confirmed my expectations for a cosy, wintery and Christmassy medieval-town vibes for my last holiday of the year, the impressions I took back home included a lot more than that. Although what compels us to choose a travel destination is some form of expectation, there is also a lingering…
“Nothing worth doing is easy” it’s been said. While there are many worthy things in life that are hard to accomplish, there is no shortage of worthy easy ones. We are often intimidated by tasks perceived as too big or hard. They tend to seem like too much for our limited skills, shaky motivation or short span of attention. Tasks perceived as easy, though, are easy. Even when the task is actually…
People often don’t realise, but making silly comments (even in thought) about how your coworker’s plans for becoming an artist - or your friend’s efforts to do more recycling - are doomed to fail is probably not making you look cool, nor smart, not even to yourself. Behaving cynically, at best, just communicates pessimism. Typically, it will reinforce our own close-mindedness
Here I’m sharing with you my current backup strategy for personal files, which involves using a physical HDD and AWS S3 service.
I’ve been wanting to restart my blog for a while now. Creating this one has reminded myself how a bit of coding literacy can unlock - besides a career - some nice little perks to life.