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Language Switcher Cheatsheet: Java, JavaScript, Python, Go

Introduction I've been a backend developer since 2008, spending most of my career writing Java. Java is how I think - when I approach a problem, my brain defaults to classes, interfaces, and explicit types. Over the years, I've jumped between platfor...

From Backend to Frontend: My Journey Building a Web App with Svelte and ChatGPT

Between jobs, I found myself with some unexpected free time, and instead of just relaxing, I decided to turn it into an opportunity to learn something new. The result? A side project that pushed me out of my comfort zone and taught me a lot about fro...

Understanding Blockchains Through Java Code

This project is just a java implementation for an educative block chain. The full code for this article is committed here A blockchain is essentially a digital ledger that maintains a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are lin...

Detecting Virtual Thread Pinning in Java

Virtual threads represent a significant leap forward for Java. I believe they will rejuvenate the language. Combined with all the recent advancements, this will further solidify Java's dominance in areas where it already leads, such as enterprise sof...

Events in Node.js

I heard multiple times that javascript is event-based but never really thought about how it works. According to Wikipedia event-driven programming "is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by events" This doesn't say m...

Use python in shell, as if it were awk

Use python in shell, as if it were awk My first technical article was about how to use awk. For some reason, I like learning bash even if it doesn't always make sense. I posted an article on hacker news and somebody suggested using one-liners, Perl. ...

AWS Lambda Tutorial

The first time I heard about AWS lambda it make me doubt my career. "Less" is an adjective suffix meaning “without” so I thought serverless is a way of getting rid of the servers. I'm a backend developer so I imagine this is a way of generating backe...

Yet Another AWK Cheat Sheet

I like bash, you can achieve a lot of things with some basic commands. I also like to make scripts for my work because it is the perfect documentation. A long time ago I learned the basics of sed and grep and this helped me a lot while doing support....

Hello world

Here we go, my first blog post. In my head, I wanted to do this for a very long time but never really give it a try. Not sure why, one reason might be my not-so-good writing skills. Then I realized there is no better way to exercise your writing skil...