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Claude and Independently Verifiable Steps
How I improved my prompting and upgraded ~7 years of frontend dependencies of this blog using Claude
Basic RAG using Elasticsearch
Small writeup on how to do basic RAG using Elasticsearch
Updating Elasticsearch aliases is sometimes atomic
Updating ES aliases is atomic within a request, but when sending multiple alias changes at the same time, the actual changes are applied with some sort of internal queue.
The curious case of Spotify collage generator
My Spotify collage generator side project that I released in June 2018 suddenly started getting a lot of traction at the end of January 2019. Why?
Laravel IoC, mocking, tests - practical example
Practical example on how to use Laravel's IoC container to mock external API call in our unit tests. This post shows how to set up our classes for easy testability and then mock then in our unit tests.
Google Stadia - exciting new gaming platform
Google Stadia is Google's bet on cloud gaming, allowing you to play games in up to 4k on just about any device. Exciting! But will it work?
Serializing Eloquent Resources to an Array
Laravel resources are a great way to transform your database models into an API response. But they can be tricky when all you need is for the resource to return a recursively serialized array which wouldn't be returned directly in a http response
Laravel and n + 1 problem
How to deal with an inherited Laravel project that has numerous n + 1 query problems spread throughout it.
Thoughts on TypeScript
TypeScript's rise in the JavaScript world is undeniable. I've been dabbling in it for the past year and recently rewrote my blog using TS. Here are some thoughts
Ruby on Rails vs Django vs Laravel: Popularity
Popularity comparison of the big 3 productivity-focused MV* backend frameworks. PHP's Laravel, Python's Django and Ruby's Ruby on Rails.
Creating your own Sublime Text 3 snippets
Help your wrists and boost your day to day productivity with your own Sublime snippets. It's really easy.
Setting up Laravel Mix for a React project
This post explains how to setup Laravel Mix for a React app with linting and hot reload enabled, without actually depending on Laravel.
My first hackathon
Reminiscing about my first 24-hour coding hackhathon, back in 2015, that kickstarted my love for hackathons. It helped that our team won.
Publishing my first public composer package
Two weeks ago I published my first composer package - a thin wrapper around Guzzle for fetching finance data from Alpha Vantage API. It actually got downloaded a couple of times.
Google Page Speed 100/100 with React
How I reached 100/100 Google Page Speed score for this website with React/React-redux/Radium and server side rendering.
Rewriting blog frontend to React
I decided to try React a month or two ago and then rewrote frontend of this blog from Vue js to React. First impressions.
Hearths card game in Go
I stripped down my old idea for an online multiplayer hearths cards game to just a simple playable hearths card game 'package'. And actually finished it this time.
PHP vs Go sorting performance
Expanding on my really really simple 'benchmarking' thingy that I described a few blog posts ago, I decided to add a more precise benchmarking category - a sorting algorithm.
Vegas pt. 1 - The Culture Shock
I went to Vegas to see Defcon 25. This post will sidetrack from my usual programming & IT stuff to talk about the Vegas (and US) experience as a European tourist.
Lumen vs Golang API performance
Recently I decided to rewrite backend API for this blog from Laravel (php) to Golang. The performance difference locally seemed huge so I wrote a simple hands-on API to 'benchmark' it on production as well.